Jane Austen discussion

It feels as if Austen is offering her opinions on the characters and other subjects in quite a free manner, I don't know if she usually does this to the same extent? I know I haven't been struck by it when reading her novels in the past but as I am re-reading them now perhaps there will be more examples. Anyway, I love the devise - it feels as if someone is confiding some gossip along with asides as and when the occur!

It is really clever and loved it. And her mocking the gothic style of writing is great and her writing things like 'fate was more on our heroines side ' etc and referring to the hero and the heroine !!! Love it!

I did like it, though it wasn't overly noticeable to me... the best thing, I thought, was how you could so totally see Jane making fun of the Gothic style! It was hilarious!

That was hilarious how much she made fun of the gothic style!

I know! I was giggling... well, too much anyway. :D

Addressing the reader directly was fairly common back then. Other authors do it, although sometimes it is in the guise of their first person narrators.