Jane Austen sighted in the New Yorker
Alert Janeite Deborah wrote to let us know that Anthony Lane’s profile of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor in this week’s New Yorker contains a Jane Austen reference. The article is not available online, but Deborah sent us the following tidbit:
The gist of the story is that Fermor (aged 90 or so) is about to take an overnight ferry trip somewhere and Lane offers to get him a cabin so he won’t have to sleep on deck. Fermor declines, saying that he has a bottle of wine and a copy of Persuasion, so what more could he need to pass a moonlit night in the open air? Sounds about right to me.
Sounds about right to us, too!
Also in the New Yorker, review of a new biography of the author Harper Lee (who wrote the Editrix’s favorite non-Austen book of all time) refers to Miss Lee’s one-time wish to become “the Jane Austen of the South.” We understand that the notoriously reclusive author is a Friend of Jane.
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