6/27/2023 0 Comments Mrs palfrey at the claremont bookAusten herself - a “spinster of the middle-class” - would almost certainly have feared revolutionary change, but her novels are rooted in a radically economic understanding of human relationships. “It makes me most uncomfortable to see,” Auden continues,Īs Auden realized, the most politically unsettling works of art often have little to do with politics - or their authors’ intentions. “Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.” The shocking “her” of these lines is not, surprisingly, one of Auden’s outré modernist contemporaries, but a novelist usually associated with staid domesticity: Jane Austen. “You could not shock her more than she shocks me,” wrote W. Review of Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (NYRB Classics, 2021)
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