on Jane Friedman site:
As you are no doubt aware, dear reader, 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. It’s worth taking a moment to think about what makes her novels stand the test of time.
In my work with writers who are revising, we focus on six pillars of revision: Story Question, Structure, Cause and Effect, Character, Curiosity, and Language. In the first part of this series, we looked at how Austen used Story Questions in Northanger Abbey. In the second, we focused on the Structure of Sense and Sensibility.
We now turn to what is probably the gateway drug for Janeites everywhere: Pride and Prejudice, in which we will discuss Cause and Effect and why they matter in a novel.
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