Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

You tell me … that you find her boring, petty and irrelevant … and you cannot imagine what purpose there can be in reading her. (Weldon’s "The City of Invention", p. 1)

Who is the "her" Weldon refers to in the above excerpt?

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Jane Austen

Answer 1

The BEST!!! answer to this question is Jane Austen

Answer 2

This is an excerpt from Weldon's "Letters to Alice: on First Reading Jane Austen". The whole book is about the author trying to convince her niece on the reasons why she should want to read Jane Austen, instead of reading it just as an assignment. Therefore, the best answer is Jane Austen.