You’d think that by the time you’re in your 40s, you understand the world reasonably well. And then a book like Middlemarch comes along and quietly unsettles that confidence. Reading it felt like a slow revelation. With its detailed observation and psychological depth, it left me with more … [Read more...]
Mansfield Park: Where My Love Affair with Jane Austen Began
Mansfield Park, and the Beginning of a Lifetime with Jane Austen How a worn Indian edition, a quiet heroine, and an unassuming place became my first and forever Jane I sometimes feel that our first Jane Austen chooses us. For me, it was Mansfield Park. I was eighteen when I first picked it … [Read more...]