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
Rejecting Jane created worldwide media coverage, which saw its author appear on radio and television programmes across the globe, including American news programmes and TV talk shows such as "Good Morning America". Rejecting Jane "Rejecting Jane" is the title of a 2007 article by British author David Lassman. The article, which was published in Issue 28 of "Jane Austen's Regency World" magazine, is a critique of the publishing industry through their inadvertent rejection of Jane Austen. Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' - a play on Austen's original "nom de plume" "A Lady" - Lassman sent out the opening chapters of "Pride and