“ Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round. ... Both men and women can be vain about their appearances, selfish about… Emily Auerbach
“ Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sen… Emily Auerbach
