Reception history of Jane Austen Critic" felt that Austen's exclusive dependence on realism was evidence of a deficient imagination. The reviewer for the "Edinburgh Review" disagreed, praising Austen for her "exhaustless invention" and the combination of the familiar and the surprising in her plots. Overall, Austen scholars have pointed out that these early reviewers did not know what to make of her novels—for example, they misunderstood her use of irony. Reviewers reduced "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice" to didactic tales of virtue prevailing over vice. In the "Quarterly Review" in 1821, the English writer and theologian Richard Whately published the most serious and
Jane Austen College Physical Education for selected pupils. The school is aiming for all pupils to complete English Baccalaureate. The GCSEs that are being offered are the following: Pupils travel to the University of East Anglia for sports lessons and electives. Units which have been taught there include football, hockey and netball. Jane Austen College Jane Austen College is a secondary free school located in Norwich, owned by the Inspiration Trust, that opened in September 2014. The school's Principal is Claire Heald. Plans for the school were announced in March 2013 with the intention to locate in central Norwich. Jane Austen was approved