REVIEW: Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
StandardWhile the media likes to portray Janeites as a homogeneous group of tea-sipping, cat-stroking, bonnet-wearing, rather silly ladies of a Certain Age who swoon as one the words “wet shirt” and pay little attention to the Serious Themes of Jane Austen’s novels, the Gentle Readers of AustenBlog (who understand the Editrix’s use of Irony, most…