A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
by Richard Jenkyns
OUP, £12.99, pp. 200, ISBN 0199276617
‘Each of us has a private Austen’ is the first line of Karen Joy Fowler’s readable and ingenious novel. This sentence, and her title, encapsulate her theme.
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