foggy, flirty and too much – Jane Austen’s menopausal women solicit compassion while making us laugh
- Written by Sophie Gee, Vice Chancellor's Fellow, English literature, University of Sydney
Was Jane Austen the first writer to show how it really feels to be a middle-aged woman?
Before Austen, literature’s iconic perimenopausal woman was the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, who regales the medieval pilgrims with a scandalous account of her five marriages, including the fact she enjoyed sex with her last husband...
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