Read more of AI Wars Paul Taylor The main business of almost all Jane Austen’s fiction is to portray that brief period in a young woman’s life when she is at the height of her charms and about to ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...