[youngidiot]

Influential? Yes. Well written? No.

Same goes for Jane Austen, IMHO.

[Borges]

Austen’s prose is pristine and perfect. How is it not well written?

[AnAmericanMother]

Jane Austen? Come, come, now. If you're going to make a statement like that, you have to back it up.

When three such dissimilar writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling agree that Austen was a master, you're going to have to be very persuasive.

Fire away.