The Salient Features of Jane Austen's Fiction

Not Among the Greatest of the NovelistsJane Austen occupies a high rank among English novelists, though she is certainly not one of the greatest of them. Her chief characteristics as a novelist are as follows: A RealistShe is a realist who draws her materials from actual life as she sees it. Her stories are perfectly credible and convincing. There is nothing fantastic, fanciful, or far-fetched in