Jane Austen Week Questions
From Elegance of Fashion : What is your favorite thing about Jane Austen? Why? There are two. One is the way there's such variation in her main characters - each heroine is different and so is each hero, though I can still find something I identify with in each heroine. The other is that she wrote about people in the country. I find this striking on its own, and in comparison to the way that so many authors of Regency novels nowadays choose to set their fiction in London. I live in the country myself, and I like seeing what life was like in similar places in the past. What are your top three favorite Jane Austen Novels and why? Persuasion - I think it's better-written and more romantic than the others. It also felt more real to me. Northanger Abbey - It's adorable! And funny, funnier than the rest, I think. Pride & Prejudice - Such a classic. None of the imitations manage to really capture both the jerkishness ...