08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Jane Austen's favorite writers finally get their due
A few years ago, rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney bought a gorgeous edition of the 18th-century novel 'Evelina' by Frances Burney, a writer she had heard of but never read. Curious, she decided to look deeper and discovered that Jane Austen probably got the title 'Pride and Prejudice' from a phrase in Burney's second novel, 'Cecilia.' Romney, an Austen aficionado, wondered what else she didn't know about the great English novelist.
