Victorian, Romance and Jane Austen

Is It Only A Novel?

Prompt: It is only a novel or in short, only some work in which the greatest power of the mind are displayed through knowledge of human nature, the happiest delimination of varieties, the liveliness effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen had a way with words and she wrote seven novels and she chose her words, characters, settings and story lines well. She added humor, wit, Mr. Darcy and he was like the perfect man. How did she ever think of him? Fiction novels are born in the minds of authors. We never know what we will we find in our minds. Jane must have known people like her characters and she went with them and wrote novels. She must have watched people, mainly couples at the balls and just went with it. Jane was well educated and this helped with her novels. She wrote in the time frame that she lived in. Each author has her or his way of writing a novel. Would we want them to all write alike? Not hardly. I appreciate Jane's style and her gift of words and views on romance. You feel like you were there. The language of love. Words. Choosing the right words, characters, setting, romance, humor and being born Jane Austen, well she has my admiration. She was the best author of her time. I would love to write like her.

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