Having read none of them, Romney looked for insight from critics but found little beyond ... On the one hand, “Jane Austen’s ...

The 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared toward women. Given that the English ... have some self ...

Thanks to her sharp wit and strong female characters, Jane ... Austen’s books have endless sly wit and cynicism, also unusual for her time. She was one of the first women to deliver humour ...