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Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of the finest and best-loved novelists in the English language. Catholics can learn a lot from her finely crafted character studies of Regency era gentry. They are penetrating studies of the subtleties of commonplace virtue and vice. They are also informed by Austen’s Christian faith.
In part one of this interview, Dwight Lindley picked some books to help the Catholic reader get the most out of Jane Austen (1775-1817), one of the finest and best-loved novelists in the English language. Here is the second part.
Dwight Lindley is the Barbara Longway Briggs Chair in English Literature at Hillsdale College. He has published essays and articles on Jane Austen, George Eliot, John Henry Newman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Virginia Woolf, and others. He lives in southern Michigan with his wife Emily and their nine children.
He has recommended the following books on Jane Austen.
- Jane Austen's Anglicanism by Laura Mooneyham White
- A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections by J. E. Austen-Leigh
- Jane Austen and Her Art by Mary Lascelles
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