Introduction by Jane Austen (Austen’s voice emerges with the composure of a woman who has outlived both her critics and her century.)Two hundred years ago, I wrote about what I saw from a small drawing room in Hampshire: pride disguised as dignity, love disguised as propriety, virtue performed for applause. I was told my world was small. Yet I found within that … [Read more...] about If Jane Austen Lived Today: Conversations on Modern Virtue
