Burchas seeks to illuminate one of the key questions of Austen scholarship: how did she go from marginality to become the “divine Jane,” the “most popular author since Shakespeare?” Her lavishly illustrated volume situates the roots of Austen’s literary ascent in expanded literacy (the Universal Education Act, UK, 1870 and compulsory education, U.S.), publication of cheap, ephemeral paperback copies of her work, and technological advances in print technology. the adaptations and sequels, rewritings and reimaginings” ( Jane Austen: The Secret Radical, 2017). There’s the passage of two hundred years, for a start, and there’s everything else-biographies and biopics. “For readers today,” Helena Kelly wrote, “opening one of Jane’s novels, there’s an enormous amount standing between them and the text.
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