Joe Bray

The Language of Jane Austen - Language, Style and Literature Joe Bray 1st ed. 2018 edition

For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the prevailing critical view was that Jane Austen has no discernible style; Editors and critics have shown, often using evidence from the surviving manuscripts, that Austen in fact honed her writing diligently, continuously making small yet significant revisions to her work.