Lizzie Dunford

It's a fascinating question, but also one that with so often is really hard to answer.

She doesn't really talk about this herself.

And the only way to understand her faith is to look at her acts and look at what she did.

She presents the institutions of the church

Interestingly, within her novels, with a broad spectrum of critique and praise and understanding, but she also presents her clergymen as people rather than necessarily representatives.

And I'd be really interested to hear what everybody else on the panel thinks.

It's a very difficult question to answer, actually.

Again, it's one of those things, it's all about context.

One of the things we hear a lot about Austen is that she wasn't particularly well read during her lifetime.

When you look at the exact numbers of books that were published and were out there,

That is true.

But when you also think about literary book buying public and people who could afford it, that was also really small.

But Pride and Prejudice in particular at the time seems to have really captured people's attention.

We actually own Lady Caroline Lamb's copy of Pride and Prejudice.

Lady Caroline Lamb was an amazing novelist in her own right.

She happens to be mistress of Byron as well for a while, but she also is an amazing writer and thinker.

And at the same time as she is reading this, Lady Arabella Milbank, who went on to become Lady Byron, is also reading Pride and Prejudice.

And there's speculation about who is it that's writing this novel?

Where is it coming from?

And it went through several editions.