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“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Austen's works have endured because she had a superb narrative technique and a gift for creating characters who feel as real as life itself.…

— Syrie James

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct.…

— David Cecil

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

“I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love…

— Polly Shulman

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

— Mary Lascelles

“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all…

— Anna Quindlen

“Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick