A review by emnp
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

Anyone who wants to read Jane Austen should read this first. This book reads like a PhD dissertation in the best way where you feel like you come away from it really understanding Jane Austen‘s historical context and herself as a person. I’m now going to read Emma with the knowledge that this was set at a time of enclosure and, the societal context within that period. I plan to return to this book before reading each of austen‘s novels and encourage others to do the same so we can read austen as she intended to be read