Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
As an avid reader of Jane Austen, one question I dread being asked is, “Do you like Fanny Price?” It’s a good question, as it gauges the answerer’s understanding of Austen’s ethics. Yet it requires me to confess: I do not care for her. “But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault” and not the fault of Fanny Price.