I had never read this and quite enjoyed it (P, who is more of an Austen fan than me, read it a few days later and didn’t, oddly).
Read this partly to follow up on 465, which claims, pretty implausibly, that slavery is a subtext of this book. I thought the best passage was towards the end where Fanny Price returns to her family in working class maritime Portsmouth, taking Jane Austen right out of her gentile comfort zone, and she writes well about this.
Neither P nor I fully understood the significance of the need to abort the amateur dramatics in the middle of the book.
Much better than Sense and Sensibility (469).
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