Jane Austen vs Emily Brontë: The Queens of English Literature Debate

Want to join the debate? Check out the Intelligence Squared website to hear about future live events and podcasts: __________________________ Filmed at the Royal Geographical Society on 26th February 2014. Jane Austen created the definitive picture of Georgian England -- a landscape of Palladian mansions and handsome parsonages, peopled by rigidly-divided classes. No writer matches Austen’s sensitive