Illustration by C. E. Brock, 1909, through Wikimedia Commons. Public area. One among Jane Austen’s many mind-bending abilities was her capability to wrest a lot drama from a world that was, by present-day requirements, nearly unfathomably static. Austen’s novels are preindustrial time capsules from an period earlier than even trains, gasoline lights, or telegraphs—the primary […]