Persuasions #10, 1988 Page 21
Reflections at a Jane Austen Meeting: Tracing the Footsteps of Jane Austen RHEA R. HILKEVITCH, PhD. Chicago, Illinois Stretching the literary mind … Where is it in the story? Locale and historical period? Into the past … not genealogy, God forbid … Trace the genetic endowment into the place setting into the immediacy of the present… Search for the eternal verities To scratch at least the surface Along the paths of immortality with sensibility (not careless love) in Jane Austen’s England. February 13, 1988 |