Trawling through far-right sites, Wright recognised a pattern in which the author’s name was used. The scholar was prompted to dig into the far-right devotion to Austen after hearing her misquoted by the disgraced “alt-right” flag-bearer Milo Yiannopoulos in a characteristically misogynist diatribe against feminism.
Neither claim stands up to close examination, while, Wright added: “Austen’s protagonists express little of the populist boosterism and preoccupation with ethnic heritage that foster an ethnostate.” Wright also found Austen used as a standard-bearer for a “vanished white traditional culture” and “exception that proves the rule of female inferiority” (because there are so few women in the literary canon). Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Features Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice.
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