The Elinor Show

And speaking of Dickens, Grigg saidI was trying to think of contemporary writers who devote that same care to the secondary characters, and it occurred to me that its a common sitcom device. You can just imagine how today Austen would be writing The Elinor Show, with Elinor as the solid moral centre and the others stumbling into and out of her New York apartment with their wacky lives.