An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists.
Helena Kelly holds degrees in Classics and English from Oxford and King's College London. She teaches Austen at an Oxford summer school, and for a programme for American visiting students in Bath. She has taught Austen to hundreds of people, of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical is her first book.
What this radical re-reading ... does so brilliantly is to exhort
us all to chuck out the chintz, and the teacups, and all the
traditional romantic notions about Austen's work that have been fed
to us for so long ... However well you think you know the novels,
you'll be raring to read them again once you've read this.
*The Bookseller*
A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and
for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen
deserves.
*The Observer*
An addictive debut.
*Stylist*
You'll definitely see Austen's works differently from now on.
*Nottingham Post*
A thoroughly engaging read.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Thoroughly impressive and convincing.
*Yorkshire Post*
It encapsulates smartly much that a frequently chintzy Austen
industry would prefer to overlook.
*The Irish Times*
Jane Austen: the Secret Radical is wonderful; a revelation. It's
difficult to stand out from the crowd when writing about such an
influential figure, but Helena Kelly has certainly achieved that
with this smart, knowing, perceptive book.
*author of A World On Fire*
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