Devoney Looser, from “Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting ‘Herstory’” [from British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820]

In this selection from the concluding chapter of her book British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820, Devoney Looser examines Austen’s letters, her juvenilia (omitted here), and Northanger Abbey to give insight into Austen’s philosophy of history as well as its role in her work.

Devoney Looser, from “Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting ‘Herstory’” [from British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820]