5/27/2023 0 Comments Tilney austen![]() From the first, her works unite subtlety and common sense, good humor and acute moral judgment, charm and conciseness, deftly marshaled incident and carefully rounded character.Īusten’s detractors have spoken of her as a “limited” novelist, one who, writing in an age of great men and important events, portrays small towns and petty concerns, who knows (or reveals) nothing of masculine occupations and ideas, and who reduces the range of feminine thought and deed to matrimonial scheming and social pleasantry. ![]() ![]() Meticulously conscious of her artistry (as, for example, is Henry James), Austen is also unremittingly attentive to the realities of ordinary human existence (as is, among others, Anthony Trollope). Jane Austen’s (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) novels-her “bits of ivory,” as she modestly and perhaps half-playfully termed them-are unrivaled for their success in combining two sorts of excellence that all too seldom coexist. ![]()
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