Damn, don't mess with Jane Austen Twitter

Literary Twitter is all in a tizzy, and we couldn’t be more delighted, because the burns are piping hot, and the subject of the controversy is novelist extraordinaire Jane Austen. 

On Friday, the Washington Post ran an essay about the fact that Jane Austen never married, despite the fact that marriage and courtship were her main subjects in books like Pride and Prejudice and Emma. But the ~scandal~ really got going after the Post tweeted out the piece on Sunday.

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Source: Mashable | Damn, don't mess with Jane Austen Twitter