When will you finally realize that Jane Austen is one of the

>>9712166
I only ever read Northanger Abbey. It was bretty funny.

Can someone confirm whether CB's Jane Eyre is actually good? I read it in high school and hated it, especially since it was presented as a 'feminist text' and we had to write a paper describing it as such. I was aghast at this because Jane Eyre ends up basically as a cheating cripple's servant in the end. Recently I've been thinking my hate might be ill-founded, since I've seen some praise for the novel here, and I'm considering rereading it to find out. Really enjoyed EB's Wuthering Heights, as contrast. Sorry to derail the Austen thread but I figure anyone into Austen would know Jane Eyre.

>>9712187
Jane Eyre is not actually good. The only Bronte sister with genuine talent is Emily. Jane Eyre is horribly overrated.

Also, amusingly, the Bronte sisters all hated Jane Austen, and in their letters to each other would talk endless shit about her books.

Pride and Prejudice just about bored me to tears as a highschooler.
She's got tight control over her shit but I think a novel should be about more things and should have grander themes. P&P just seemed small to me. I think Woolf is far more talented

>>9712166
No doubt. Just as Chekhov's one of the greatest short story writers who ever lived, etc. So?
Nobody however seems to like Persuasion. I do.

>>9712686
I think youre right. But unlike poetry, prose fiction rarely ages well. A few exceptions, of course.

>>9712166
George Eliot >>>> Jane Aushit

>>9712709
Whoop, whoop there's my boy1

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>>9712408
>women don't like each other
wow what a surprise

>>9712686
Have you read anything of hers besides P&P? I'd actually argue that that's her weakest book. Or, rather, it's her most "normal" book, hence why everyone likes it. But her other stuff is more complex and interesting. I'm a big fan of Emma, personally.

>>9712166
why don't you tell us more about her superlative -
and very male - editor then?

>>9712709
she's good but fucking humorless

>>9713031
>the bumbling politician gets ols vegetables thrown at him after being annoying for 500 pages

>not funny

>>9713031
Austen isn't really that funny. Even if I concede the point, Eliot is still a better writer. Middlemarch makes Austen's books seem like 19th-century YA by comparison.