The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct. On her bit of ivory she has engraved a criticism of life as serious and as considers as Hardy's.
David CecilTag: jane-austen thomas-hardy
The sole agents, indeed, in the action of her novels are individual human beings. And the comedy is the outcome of their making fools of themselves and of one another.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
It has the permanent quality of literature.
Virginia WoolfTag: jane-austen
Jane Austen, who is said to be Shakespearian, never reminds us of Shakespeare, I think, in her full-dress portraits, but she does so in characters such as Miss Bates and Mrs. Allen.
A.C. BradleyTag: jane-austen william-shakespeare
Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen emma sense-and-sensibility
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As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression that she bears of sympathy between them--an impression of which almost every reader would be sensible, even if it had not the explicit confirmation of Jane Austen's letters. Yet, as she is presented to us in Pride and Prejudice, she is but a partial and sometimes perverse observer.
Mary LascellesTag: elizabeth-bennet jane-austen pride-and-prejudice
Jane Austen never repeats herself.
Mary LascellesTag: jane-austen
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
Dodie SmithTag: marriage characters jane-austen
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Tracy ChevalierTag: jane-austen
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