Among the Victorian women novelists, Jane Austen ranks as a supreme mistress of comedy. Macaulay has boldly compared her with Shakespeare. (Dawson 78).She brought to her task of social comedy a singular combination of rare gifts- wit and satire of wonderful delicacy, a mind of great penetration, a style absolutely pellucid and effortless. No novelist has ever been more thoroughly an artist both in her attitude towards her own work and in her respect for her own limitations. She is so impersonal in her attitude that
one may seek in vain for any trace of her own opinions or thoughts in her writings.
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON JANE AUSTEN AS A SUPREME MISTRESS OF COMEDY