Lizzie Dunford

I've been doing quite a lot of research in Austin with fairy tales and actually looking at Austin as storyteller.

And when you compare the archetypal stereotypes, particularly of parents, and within fairy tale where you have that combination of the king and representing the father, there is actually throughout, particularly those first three fairy tales that they're writing in the late 1800s,

17th century, the father as the evil villain is a reference to Louis XIV.

So I think there is something in, I'm not going to say it's definitely, but when you look in Austen, you have this ineffectual distant king, and you have these ineffectual fathers.

And I think Austen's novels are so mimetic, and they have stood with us in a way that so much hasn't.

And I'm still working on it, but they are built into these wider narratives.

deeply Indo-European storytelling themes, as well as being of the Regency.