![]() ![]() Austen, though born in the eighteenth century, was writing largely in and about the seventeenth. She is something like the godmother of the modern novel, writing about the “normal” people and early on in the wave of “novels of manners,” which is how we think of many of the Victorian novels and nineteenth century writing. Six! You’d think as a casual observer of world culture and literature, that there were a hundred, they come up so often and are talked about so frequently as a beloved body of work. I also didn’t realize that, due to an early death, Austen only ever published six books, only four of them during her lifetime. Then I transferred any of those books that I hadn’t yet read over to my own reading plan and when February was at an end-there it was. How did I choose Northanger Abbey? I was looking for some Jane Austen to put on a book-a-week through-the-year reading list, and I wanted Austen but didn’t want to overwhelm people, so I chose her shortest book. (I am a fan of many of the movies, including the Sense and Sensibility from the 90s: one of my all-time favorites.) Now I have also read-at the least- Northanger Abbey. In reality, I’m not entirely sure I’ve read any of her books except Emma, at least until this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems obvious that I would have read all of Jane Austen’s books. ![]()
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