To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
Mark TwainTags: bad-reviews jane-austen
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
Virginia WoolfTags: criticism jane-austen biography
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
Jane AustenTags: jane-austen
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane AustenTags: love literature jane-austen northanger-abbey
Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.
Mary LascellesTags: jane-austen
Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.
Mary LascellesTags: jane-austen
In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.
Mary LascellesTags: jane-austen
Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in which they are involved, and on the description of their situations.
Mary LascellesTags: jane-austen
I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyse.
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