So so so excited for the release of this lecture! It's 15 minutes, and a lovely deep dive into Austen and Woolf, unpicking a question that many tv and film writers since have often answered in the strong affirmative:

> In answering the question 'did Mary Bennet fancy Mr Collins for herself?' we can see just how brilliant Jane Austen's writing style is because it gives us an excellent example of her technique in creating fictional worlds. In the second half of the video—with reference to Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader (1925)—I describe Jane Austen’s world-building, elucidating one of the reasons why I think Jane Austen is so successful and popular as a writer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgoHtwTXt00

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