More Sense than Sensibility: Shades of the French Revolution

Jane Austen was nineteen when she began writing novels. The first of these was never completed, but three others, after the passage of time and extensive revisions, were published and are among the worlds best loved novels. Their continued popularity, two-hundred years after being written, is extraordinary. It is undoubtedly related to her timeless topics of love and personal relationships, but other authors wrote about these things and they are now considered to be dated and unreadable. Wh...