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What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?

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Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks.

This talk will introduce fictions whose representations of the path to marriage is anything but starry-eyed and rosy-coloured, and an author who is anything but 'dear sweet Aunt Jane'. Dr Sandie Byrne is a University Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing

Date Published: 07 October 2013
Contributors:
Sandie Byrne
In Collection(s): Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands, Jane Austen
Keywords:
#greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? by Sandie Byrne at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/whats-so-great-about-austen-isnt-she-just-bonnets-balls-0. Published on 07 October 2013. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Sandie Byrne, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).