'Camp Austen' is the most delightful Jane Austen book of the season

Casual readers who may have enjoyed Pride and Prejudice when they read it at school and who vaguely remember the old BBC adaptation starring a sultry Colin Firth will have not the faintest conception of the size and sheer fanaticism of Jane Austen fandom that has existed for two centuries and currently spans the globe like a well-mannered and exceedingly well-dressed secret society.

Members of this fandom cosplay with compulsive regularity; they can quote random letters or