I'm reading Daniel Deronda, and at first I see what looks to be a dig at Mrs. Bennet: "Some readers of this history will doubtless regard it as incredible that people should construct matrimonial prospects on the mere report that a bachelor of good fortune and possibilities was coming within reach…"
And now it's a snipe at Jane Eyre: "Some beautiful girls who, like her, had read romances where even plain governesses are centres of attraction and are sought in marriage, might have solaced themselves a little by transporting such pictures into their own future…"
I'm enjoying Daniel Deronda as much as I did Middlemarch–there's something about the English country life novel that draws me in–but I wasn't expecting to see Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte dissed.
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