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
The Jane Austen Argument the first single, Holes, for order online on 3 November. The lyrics to the titular song were written by friend and famed author Neil Gaiman. After recording the tracks for "Somewhere Under the Rainbow", the band accompanied Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman on a tour of North America on the "Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer" tour. After travelling to Canada for a show in Vancouver, Dickins was not permitted re-entry into the United States. This period became referred to by Dickins, and fans, as "Dickins-In-Exile". Shortly after, the band returned to Australia. In January 2012, The Jane Austen