“Sometimes it seems as if her creatures were born merely to give Jane Austen the supreme delight of slicing their heads off.”
Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
“Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader’s mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial.”
