Lizzie Dunford
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was also being published in translation and adaption on The Continent.
It's a complex question in terms of sheer bestseller numbers and in terms of income.
No, but there were conversations about it.
I would completely agree.
I read all the novels when I was very young and I didn't know anything.
And I still love them.
And I also think there's something in this with Austen thinking about what these novels are about.
And they're not about the Regency.
They are set in the Regency.
And that happens to be the backdrop.
That is the social backdrop.
If she wrote in the 1980s, those ballroom scenes would take place in a discotheque.
I think there are aspects of particularly Mansfield Park and Persuasion, knowing a little bit more about the Napoleonic Wars.
It's all the way through.
Again, it's not explicit, but it's there.
And maybe having a little bit more knowledge about it helps.
And they're set in the Regency.
They are not about the Regency.
For me, for me.
She tells you.