Bharat Tandon

Reading between the lines | 26 January 2017

Northanger Abbey stresses the mortal risk of childbirth; while Elizabeth Bennet is a conservative’s nightmare

  • Jane Austen: The Secret Radical

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    Icon Books, pp. 328

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