Jane Austen: Patron Saint of Domestic Fiction
Slate has an article today on novelist Fay Weldon, comparing her domestic dramas to Jane Austen’s novels:
She is actually writing in a great tradition: the British domestic comedy. Bitter, truth-speaking, and very funny portraits of domestic life have emerged from the pens of Englishwomen for over a century. Jane Austen hovers in the background, an acerbic ghost occasionally flaring into wickedness: Mr. Collins’ windbaggery, Emma’s myopia.
The article doesn’t mention it, but Ms. Weldon adapted the late 70s BBC miniseries of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, known to the online fandom as P&P1.
