Sara Pascoe: how I overcame my Jane Austen prejudice
Austen's women have the same rights as children; her 'romantic' match-making smacks of desperation. So how did the standup see the funny side of Pride and Prejudice for her new stage adaptation?"Why does no one talk about how funny Jane Austen is?" I ask my friend Katie. We'd done English literature for three years at Sussex University " how was I only discovering these perceptive comedies a decade later?"It's all an…