Almost done this book and.... i dont know what the fuss is all

>>9841384
She's had a great sense of humor. I don't think very many writers at the time wrote about rather average women (in terms of social standing and looks). Decent satire of the social milieu of her time

>>9841400
but why has her status stuck around, when other female writers have taken a back seat
take Helen Hunt Jackson for example

Read Mansfield Park, you pleb.

>>9841554
Because Austen's a better writer.

Also >>9841563

>>9841569
>>9841563
Ok F A M
what do you think of P&P/ S&S?

>>9841384
>We're only getting married if you're rich and not a shitlord
There, you just read every Jane Austen novel.

>>9841384

She's objectively important to the history of the novel through her realism and use of free indirect speech. She wrote about a very privileged closed set of society, but she stretched the limits of what could be done in that setting. She's a fine creator of characters and has a great sense of irony while letting the emotional currents of her stories resonate.

Also, like Shakespeare, she's one of those authors where people read whatever political or social messages they want, so the academics will certainly keep her work alive if the general public stops enjoying them.