Another quotation from Jane Austen (once again via Chris Ambidge), this time from a letter of 11 December 1815 to James Stanier Clarke, about Austen’s novel Emma. Surely this is false modesty — and couched as a boast, so that it looks like what we’d now call humblebragging. On the background, from Wikipedia: James Stanier Clarke (1766–1834) … Continue reading Austenian humblebragging?