The weirdly modern Jane Austen debate we still haven’t figured out

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Frances O’Connor and Jonny Lee Miller in Patricia Rozema’s 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. | MGM+
There’s a bizarrely opaque, oddly modern question hovering over the legacy of Jane Austen. And despite centuries of debate, scholars still haven’t been able to figure out how to answer…

This story appeared on vox.com, 2025-10-08 10:00:00.
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