A review by ateague73
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

5.0

This book was super fun! I always knew Jane Austen wasn't just a romance writer who was clueless about the events of her time. This book lines out all the ways Austen's books tackle those topics head on, we just didn't know the secret code that her contemporary readers would have known. She chose place names names and character names that would alert her readers to the theme of what she was really talking about, while making the plots seem innocuous and gentle. This was fascinating.