After achieving her PhD at 88, Ruth wants a Jane Austen-led reading revolution
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Ruth Wilson fell in love with Jane Austen in a Griffith cinema in the late 1940s, watching Greer Garson’s Elizabeth Bennet judge, reject, then fall in love with Mr Darcy. When she gushed about the film at school, her English teacher introduced her to
Pride and Prejudice.
Emma followed, then
Mansfield Park. Mrs Wilson, now 88, rereads Austen’s novels every year. Each time, she interprets them a little differently, and finds new parallels between her own life and those of the heroines in the books.