OMG! It’s Jane Austen... the TikTok generation embraces new heroine

Two hundred years on, Austen's take on the pressures of friendship and love is winning over young readers

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!" wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.

This weekend, 210 years after the publication of the second of her six novels, Austen's work is providing as much enjoyment as ever - and to a younger audience than the author probably ever dreamed of.