Author Archive: Helena Kelly

Jane Austen and the Zombie Apocalypse

At one point in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, the heroine Anne Elliot takes it on herself to recommend some prose reading to an acquaintance who, recently bereaved, is exacerbating his depression with too much poetry. On her list are ‘such works of our best moralists, such collections of the finest letters, such memoirs of characters of […]