" Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot.… Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.” G.K. CHESTERTON "

― Jennifer Crusie , Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece