Why Mr. Collins? The Church and Clergy in Jane Austen’s Novels
Illustrated, interactive talk by Brenda S. Cox, author of Fashionable Goodness: Christianity in Jane Austen’s England Jane Austen had a high regard for the church. Why, then, did she present Mr. Collins as a buffoon? Why was he so deferential to Lady Catherine? (He had good reasons.) Did he fail in his duties, as Edmund […]