![]() We are grateful to the Royal Literary Fund for sponsoring this event. Their discussion is chaired by John Mullan, author of What Matters in Jane Austen? He praises Emma. The novelist Kamila Shamsie speaks up for Pride and Prejudice, which she has loved since childhood. Lyford gave her may have been too high a dose, which caused her to eventually stop breathing. ![]() Helena Kelly, who admires Persuasion, is the author of Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, ‘a sublime piece of literary detective work’. Helena Kelly, in Jane Austen: The Secret Radical, thinks that whatever Austen was sick with, a dose of opiates strong enough to knock her out completely for nine hours has to have at least hastened her death (282). Paula Byrne is the author of The Real Jane Austen, which introduces us to a woman deeply involved in the world around her, yet far ahead of her time in emotional and artistic development. What explains her enduring appeal? Four writers discuss this as well as arguing for their favourite of her novels. ![]() Summer 2017 marks the bicentenary of the death of Jane Austen at the age of 41. A celebration of Jane Austen - 200 years since her death. ![]()
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