
On Teaching, but Not Loving, Jane Austen
I used to adore the Pride and Prejudice author. But over the years I’ve grown more ambivalent toward her and the fervor for her work.
A celebration of the life and legacy of Jane Austen, 200 years after her death

I used to adore the Pride and Prejudice author. But over the years I’ve grown more ambivalent toward her and the fervor for her work.

Two hundred years after the novelist’s death, people still bond over her works. Sometimes, costumes are involved.

Starting in the Victorian era, stage performers and writers have been subverting the novelist’s reputation as the go-to author for conventional, heterosexual love.

Her work has done more than any other author’s to influence what “happily ever after” means in culture.