Who Hated Jane Austen So Much?
Was it Rudyard Kipling? Or Mark Twain? Which popular author hated Jane Austen so much? Jane Austen’s 200th deathday is July 18th, and The New York Times is celebrating with a Jane Austen quiz. …..
Posts tagged: Jane Austen
The Jane Austen 10-Pound Note: Did the Bank of England Bungle the Quote?
The words are all right, but the meaning is all wrong.
Mark Twain Didn’t Exactly Love Jane Austen
“Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”Mark Twain on Jane Austen, from The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History.
We Stand Corrected on Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy
A sharp-eyed Who2 reader writes: