Sublime

he certainly liked him the better, as Rosamond did, for being a stranger in Middlemarch. One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.

1960s and 1970s cover interpretations of Jane Austen’s novels are an unfettered joy, with jackets featuring Biba-clad heroines complete with heavy eyeliner and flowing locks; a psychedelic Elizabeth Bennet; Persuasion’s Captain Wentworth as a sort of hipster-bearded Captain Birds Eye; beautifully manicured, red-nailed hands; and lines such as ‘A fr