Jane Austen’s fiction is enduring and accessible, says British Deputy High Commissioner

Through wit and subtle societal critique, Jane Austen interrogated societal roles and expectations, creating characters that are rich, divers and psychologically nuanced. She was acold up of her time, not lone arsenic a novelist but besides arsenic a pistillate writer, c said connected Tuesday.

Speaking astatine the inaugural league of a one-day nationalist seminar connected ‘Jane Austen @ 250’ astatine Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here, helium noted that her works entreaty arsenic to young readers and mature audiences, which marque her lit some accessible and enduring.

MANUU Vice-Chancellor Syed Ainul Hasan said Austen, done the values and memorable characters she created, person near an enduring legacy. He described her caller Pride & Prejudice arsenic a zenith of romanticist fabrication and added that she initiated literate disapproval overmuch earlier than galore ceremonial English critics and noted that Indian literary, world and theatrical traditions, peculiarly during the 1990s, drew importantly from British literate heritage.