Like Shakespeare Jane Austen knew the inner nature by intuition, and had learned its outward expression by observation. Character not only affects the speech of each one of her men and women, but determines their destiny and shapes the plot of the story.
- Clara H. Whitmore, Women’s Work in English Fiction (1909) [full text]
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