Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice'
by
Phyllis Ferguson-Bottomer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing.
So Odd a...