Pleased to Be Loony
Alice Spawls: The Janeites, 8 November 2012
Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures
by Claudia Johnson.
Chicago, 224 pp., £22.50, June 2012,978 0 226 40203 1 Show More
by Claudia Johnson.
Chicago, 224 pp., £22.50, June 2012,
“... in strange fantasies to sustain the impression of intimacy with Austen that the novels create. George Saintsbury, who coined the term ‘Janeite’ in 1894, made a point of his readiness ‘to live with and to marry’ Elizabeth Bennet and serve as ‘a knight (or at least a squire) of the order of St Jane’. In 1949, after writing two books about ... ”