Two centuries after her
most famous work, Jane Austen inspires huge devotion in the US. What
makes this most English of writers so appealing to Americans?
She wrote it herself in 1813: "How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book."
Jane Austen's own work is a case in point. It may be 200
years since her most celebrated novel, Pride and Prejudice, was
published, but in the US she is the subject of more wildly devotional
fan-worship than ever.
With their conventions, Regency costumes and self-written
"sequels" to their heroine's novels, Austen's most dedicated adherents
display a fervency easily rivalling that of the subcultures around Star
Trek or Harry Potter.
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