Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Fay Weldon

The mother of English-Fiction, is the stature of Frances Burney, according to Virginia Woolf. Her diary is rife with literary experimentation, and her first published novel Evelina, or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance Into the World (1778),...

The comparative study of texts and contexts demonstrates that composers write to reflect prevalent values and issues within their own society. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice exhibit connections in terms of the...

Profuse similarities between texts are often exposed by examining the way that authors react to their surrounding society. This notion is regularly expressed between Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’, (1813) and Fay Weldon’s text, ‘Letters...