In her letters, Austen was as open about her admiration of and indebtedness to Richardson as she was Frances Burney.
(At fifteen, my favorite Austen novel was Mansfield Park. I have since used this as evidence that, at fifteen, I was prig. By eighteen, when I took my only college literature class, an Austen seminar, it had switched to Pride and Prejudice. By the end of the class, it was Persuasion, and I have not been persuaded since to alter my affections.)
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Date: 2021-03-29 03:05 pm (UTC)(At fifteen, my favorite Austen novel was Mansfield Park. I have since used this as evidence that, at fifteen, I was prig. By eighteen, when I took my only college literature class, an Austen seminar, it had switched to Pride and Prejudice. By the end of the class, it was Persuasion, and I have not been persuaded since to alter my affections.)