“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
—Jane Austen
Jane Austen, the most biting pen of 19th century England, deploys in her intimate correspondence – notably with her sister and nieces – her incomparable prose and regales us with the elegant insolence of her quiet irony. This little book distils, letter after letter, a concentrate of unequalled practical, social and literary intelligence, tracing a precise path of emancipation and artistic awareness.
