Jane Austen wrote only a handful of novels, but they are so well-loved that 200 years on she still has an enormous number of readers, fan-fiction writers, and film adaptations. At the same time, her critics have accused her of being unbearably trivial and even boring. Listen to find out why she wrote the way she did and why so many of us still love her.
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