A review by balletbookworm
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

3.0

The arguments made about Jane Austen's political leanings (spoiler: she's not a Conservative) are interesting and worth thinking about, whether you agree or not. However, the affectation of placing a fanciful, fictionalized scene from Austen's life at the beginning of each chapter, including the Introduction, is completely unnecessary and hypocritical after taking Austen biographers to task for creating saccharine, unsupported-by-evidence portraits of "our Dear Jane." The editor should had nixed those pages.