In fact, some of her popularity with people today may be due to the allure of a lost world of civility that her novels depict. In Austen’s analysis of human frailty and frivolity, nastiness and nobility, manners play an important role and offer something unique to contemporary readers.
Her wit, elegant prose, and profound study of human character render her a novelist of the highest caliber. Regency period dramas are perennially appealing to modern audiences.Īusten deserves this high place among British writers.
Film and TV adaptations of Austen’s work, for example, have proliferated in recent decades, the latest installment being PBS’s “Sanditon,” a “Jane Austen inspired” TV series. While we may debate the correctness of this poll’s conclusion (William Shakespeare, anyone?), what’s beyond question is that Austen remains remarkably popular with British and American readers alike-even 200 years after her death.
Who’s the greatest British writer of all time?Īccording to a 2022 poll of 2,000 Brits, the answer is Jane Austen.
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