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Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy believes ‘extensive reading’ makes an accomplished woman. What else does reading mean in her work?

  • Written by Gillian Dooley, Adjunct Associate in English, Flinders University
Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy believes ‘extensive reading’ makes an accomplished woman. What else does reading mean in her work?Timothy Krause/Flickr, CC BY

What does it mean to be a reader in Jane Austen’s novels? And what does it mean to read them? Susan Allen Ford, longtime editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journals, confesses to perhaps 25 years of fascination with her subject.

She makes no claim to completeness for her book, What Jane...

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