Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland), December 29th, 2007
Sense and Sensibility
New Year's Day, BBC2, 9.10pm
Heaven knows what Jane Austen would make of the reverence in which she's held almost 200 years after her death. Doubtless she'd be flabbergasted, because although four of her books were published and critically well received in her short lifetime, they made little impact on the general consciousness.
She was just 41 when she succumbed to what was probably a variation of Addison's disease, leaving behind four published novels and two that would appear posthumously. And until the 1870s they were admired only by a discerning elite. But her w...
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