By John Hertz: So far as I know she never actually said this.
Nor did she write message fiction.
But everyone in her books who learns anything learns it.
Don’t make windows into mirrors.
By John Hertz: So far as I know she never actually said this.
Nor did she write message fiction.
But everyone in her books who learns anything learns it.
Don’t make windows into mirrors.
Actually, she did write message fiction: see Helena Kelly, “Jane Austen, Secret Radical”. In her day, the press wasn’t really free, writers were arrested and otherwise hassled if they spoke out. So she disguised the messages.