We shall soon be reminded of her physical assets (or lack thereof) on a daily basis, with the introduction of the new Jane-adorned £10 bill, but it is her broadminded views and burnished words that make her the woman of note that she was. No plain Janeīut of the many things she may or may not have been, plain, Jane never was. Or with the otherwise insightful Charlotte Bronte, we might erroneously agree that Jane “ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound the Passions are perfectly unknown to her”.
Or maybe, like her nephew and biographer James-Edward Austen-Leigh, we mistake her smooth, subtle storytelling for plain, shorn of the important events of the day, of anything eventful at all! In A Memoir of Jane Austen, he wrote that she paid “very little attention” to political events and led a life, as well as wrote books, that were “singularly barren of events”. Or we see the love stories in her novels as evidence of her own thwarted desires. We concoct romantic relationships for her then, such as in 2007’s Becoming Jane, or Miss Austen Regrets in 2008, to make her fit the mould of a frilly romance writer better. Perhaps we think of her as the spinster who never married, who isn’t really known to have even been in a relationship. Maybe not ever, if we cannot see what Jane meant us to see, what she hid in plain sight.īecause when we think of Jane, we think of a different kind of plain. Not now if the feverish movie-making and merchandising are anything to go by, and not before, if the book critiques written in her lifetime are a fair indication. When all the films have been watched, from the sparkling Colin Firth-starrer of 1995, to the bizarre Pride and Prejudice and Zombies last year, when the tote bag has been bought and the mug proudly displayed, and the many Facebook/Instagram posts on how “P&P” is “amazeballs” liked/loved/pinned with a purple flower, how many of us have actually grasped what Jane Austen had to say? How colonial laws of censorship are still used by governments for moral policing.‘Shh! baby is sleeping’: Puppy up for adoption falls asleep in anchor’s arms during broadcast.‘Operation Fortune’ review: An entertainingly fleet espionage thriller.Rush Hour: Manipur is swept by deadly violence.A new translation of the first book of Kalki’s Tamil magnum opus ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ is here.
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