Jane Austen did NOT write 'romance novels'! Her writing is deliberately unsentimental and realistic and she explored many controversial themes. She is a genius of satire, humour and thorough intellect. | By Leysa Flores
Jane Austen’s work is predominantly anti-romantic and anti-sentimental. To be romantic is to have an idealised view of reality1, and to be sentimental is to move away from rational thought or to be or
Jane Austen wrote to advance realism in fiction, as revealed in her letters to her niece, Anna Austen Lefroy | by Leysa Flores
Image: Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, pencil and watercolour, circa 1810, NPG 3630 © National Portrait Gallery, London In the comments of another post the other day, I discovered a fellow Steemian is
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