Report, if you have a problem with this page“ I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments. ”
Harold Bloom
From : The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
