Sense and Sensitivity

Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, was a contemporary of novelist Jane Austen, and in a review praised her novels for their expression of Christian values. However, he emphasised that it was to Jane’s credit that she did not resort to sermonising, but allowed her message to communicate itself subtly, which in Whately’s opinion made it all the more effective.

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