![]() ![]() Therefore, to test Kelly's hypothesis, we might want to ask – So if you don't want to be disabused of your false notions, don't read her book.And in fact, if you think Jane Austen was a sweet, conventionally-minded spinster who wrote romantic novels, you are reading her all wrong.It is Kelly's research and understanding of the context and the times in which Austen wrote her novels, that enables Kelly to analyze and explain the novels.And she, Helena Kelly, has the insight to understand those messages. ![]() Kelly explains that what you may think are light-hearted, superficial, romantic comedies, in fact are very dark and complicated and multi-layered with lots of hidden (secret, radical) messages.We are not talking about North Korean levels of repression.) "he Austen family lived in a country in which any criticism of the status quo was seen as disloyal and dangerous." (This is overstated, and requires some qualification. Because in Austen's time, writing something critical of the government or the royal family could get you in trouble with the authorities, even jailed.In other words, Austen held radical views, and these views were not out in the open for everyone to see, but were covert or secret in some way. Helena Kelly posits that Jane Austen was a secret radical. ![]()
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