Sex and the Radio
Listener, June 8, 2002
“Elizabeth Bennett is the most shag-able of Jane Austen’s heroines.”
This evocative statement was blurted by media chic poet Kate Camp, currently writer-in-residence at Waikato University, on Kim Hill’s Saturday morning show on National Radio. She was reviewing Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, which to her was “like eating a box of chocolates .… More,,,