I love to read. In fact, I teach English literature. Do you like to read?
Yes, I love to read also. Jane Austen is my favorite author. I love her irony.
I love Austen too. I taught a course on her. I used Helena Kelly's recent book arguing for Austen's "secret radicalism."
I've never heard of that book. I don't usually think of Austen as a radical, but I know there's lots of academic study about her themes
It's actually a controversial argument, which made it fun for class discussion. Which is your favorite of her novels?
My favorite is Persuasion. Although my daughter's middle name is Elizabeth, for Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Predjudice.
Really? I used to have a dog named Bingley, after Mr. Bingley from Pride and Prejudice because "he is an amiable gentleman."
Mr. Darcy
Fitzwilliam Darcy, generally referred to as Mr. Darcy, is one of the two central characters in Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice". He is an archetype of the aloof romantic hero, and a romantic interest of Elizabeth Bennet, the novel's protagonist. The story's narration is almost exclusively from Elizabeth's perspective; the reader is given a one-sided view of Darcy for much of the novel, but hints are given throughout that there is much more to his character than meets the eye
Persuasion's" protagonist Anne Elliot. Hawkins was familiar with Austen from school, and though flattered to be asked to play the role, she was initially hesitant about returning to Austen. "I re-read the books and fell in love with Jane Austen completely... I had been slightly dismissive, and the fact that I was dismissive is shameful to me now. It's like being dismissive of Dickens or Beckett. Her work had never really come into my world before and I'm so glad it has." Having