Is this book my platonic ideal of a non-fiction book? Maybe. Probably. So much so that I have in fact already ordered and received my own copy of the book. Why am I not rounding it up to 5? I don’t know. The topic was always likely to draw me in. Jane Austen’s Bookshelf chronicles the women authors that would have appeared on Austen’s own shelf. Yes, please – that sounds great. But it’s probably the author’s point of view that pushes this one over […]
“… the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It’s called the Great Forgetting.”
Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney