Sophie Gee

So I think we've got one more star in this show.

And that's how you first came to know her, isn't it?

It's extraordinary.

And just to think back to Austin with that, you know, no wonder when they perform Lovers Vows or when they're rehearsing Lovers Vows in Mansfield Park, it just becomes this hotbed of flirtation, sexual tension, desire, longing, excitement for everyone, even for Fanny Price.

She's caught up in this just spirit of romantic love

anticipation inchbold's obviously a genius complete genius yeah love that love the hot priest so that kind of that's just about a wrap and i think the last thing to say in our roundup of the women who made jane austen is you know the last woman who made jane austen was of course none other than jane austen because when we go back and we read her early work her juvenilia

especially the beautiful Cassandra, which is her multi-chapter novel that is just a handful of pages long.

And then we read a piece that she may have written for a publication that her brothers edited and wrote as students at Oxford.

Her brothers, James and Henry, edited a publication called The Loiterer.

And there's a piece in that that critics think that the young Jane Austen may well have written.

demanding that the publication have more female characters, more female representation in it.

We see the early signs that this is a woman who is not going to accept the kind of the compromises, the easy stories, the sort of acceptable narratives that were available to genteel women of her day.

And she's going to turn to these

these women who we've described as the bolters and the fighters and the writers and the iconoclasts of late 18th and 19th century Britain, she's going to turn to them and call on them to shape her stories and shape her voice.

And I think it entirely explains these six women, the women who came before in the earlier part of the 18th century and then the juvenile Jane Austen, the young Jane Austen, it entirely explains why women

You can open an Austen book and you come back to it again and again, and there's always something there that you haven't seen before.

There's a complexity and a kind of richness and darkness that isn't obvious on the surface, but it's always there lurking behind.

No, I wouldn't.

I think it's a great point that what Austen does is she doesn't come up with the voice.

She doesn't come up with the sort of daring content or she doesn't even particularly come up with the satirical stance or the irony.