Canada’s Globe and Mail from last Friday showcases four female authors who influenced novelist Jane Austen’s work. The article’s author, Susan Catto, who has a doctorate in 18th century literature from Oxford, suggests that the work of authors Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Ann Radcliffe, and Frances Burney may be successors to the waning Austen mania in popular culture.
In the next couple months, I’ll be writing about one of my favorite Austen-type authors, Georgette Heyer, who wrote prolifically (and wittily) throughout the 20th century about Regency England in her romantic novels. Stay tuned.
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