Jane Austen's Timeless Genius: Beyond Love Stories, A Social Commentator Unleashed

Jane Austen 250th birth anniversary: If screen adaptations, bestseller lists, themed parties, and book club favourites are anything to go by, Jane Austen, dead for 200 years, ishaving a career many living authors would die for. While her novels are generally seen as love stories, Austen is an equally compelling ‘hater’, a social commentator cool, critical, accurate, and absolutely eviscerating. So what is it about Jane Austen that her genius remains “universally acknowledged” across the globe, and more importantly, across the steep pyramid of book lovers? While a billion doctoral theses have dealt with this question, on her 250th birth anniversary, here is a condensed explainer. Of love and money, but so much more