Augustine Birrell
Former Chief Secretary for IrelandWikipedia
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Sep 9, 2026
speaker_2NARRATOR
Minds and hearts are made pretty much after the same pattern from century to century, and given a modern dress and speech, Emma or Elizabeth or dear Anne Elliot could enter a drawing-room to-day and excite no surprise except by so closely resembling the people whom they would find there.
speaker_2NARRATOR
"'Miss Austen's novels are dateless things,' Mr. Augustine Birrell tells us.
speaker_2NARRATOR
'Nobody in his senses would speak of them as old novels.
speaker_2NARRATOR
John Inglesant is an old novel, so is Ginx's Baby.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
Minds and hearts are made pretty much after the same pattern from century to century, and given a modern dress and speech, Emma or Elizabeth, or dear Anne Elliot, could enter a drawing-room today and excite no surprise except by so closely resembling the people whom they would find there.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
"Miss Austen's novels are dateless things," Mr. Augustine Birrell tells us.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
"Nobody in his senses would speak of them as old novels.
Lynn ThompsonNARRATOR
John Inglesant is an old novel, so is Ginx's Baby.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Minds and hearts are made pretty much after the same pattern from century to century, and given a modern dress and speech, Emma or Elizabeth or dear Anne Elliot could enter a drawing-room to-day and excite no surprise except by so closely resembling the people whom they would find there.
speaker_5NARRATOR
"'Miss Austen's novels are dateless things,' Mr. Augustine Birrell tells us.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Nobody in his senses would speak of them as old novels.
speaker_5NARRATOR
John Inglesant is an old novel, so is Ginx's Baby.