# Jane Austen — What’s Wrong with the World character guide

> Jane Austen in What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-what-s-wrong-with-the-world

## Who they are

The novelist, referenced as a literary example of domestic realism.

## In the story

### [XIV: Folly and Female Education](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_s_wrong_with_the_world_se/chapters/xiv-folly-and-female-education)

Praised as stronger, sharper, and shrewder than Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, and able to 'coolly and sensibly describe a man.'

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