Jane Austen’s Latest
Marilyn Butler, 21 May 1981
Jane Austen’s ‘Sir Charles Grandison’
edited by Brian Southam.
Oxford, 150 pp., £7.95, March 1981,0 19 812637 9 Show More
edited by Brian Southam.
Oxford, 150 pp., £7.95, March 1981,
“... than any other literary discovery, short of a new play by Shakespeare, that one can imagine.’ Brian Southam begins his Introduction to ‘Grandison’ by quoting the apparently prophetic observation of Margaret Drabble in 1974. Ever since she said it, there has been a run of near misses or all-buts, beginning with Another Lady’s completion of Jane ... ”
