[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.

[youngidiot]

I don’t have a good case. Seems my name might be fitting in this case. I just always found her to be too predictable - it was easy to figure out who would end up with whom.