Was there a soupc,on of sapphic yearning when heroine Fanny Price — playing a vicar in a home theatrical! — was caressed by Miss Crawford in the new movie version of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park?

Jane Austen is one of those women from the past who has both been co-opted by feminists and patronized for her lack of geopolitical interest. Of course, her unmarried state is a hopeful sign to feminists, and the injection of at least a hint of lesbianism into an Austen movie was inevitable.
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