On this Valentine's Day, if you're looking for love, may we suggest you go dancing?

After all, as the British romantic novelist Jane Austen wrote in her most popular work, Pride and Prejudice,

To be fond of dancing is a, quote, certain step towards falling in love.

This year, Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since her birth,

and in her homeland of England,

they're expecting a tourist boom, as special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports for our

arts and culture series, Canvas.

Mr. Darcy, allow me to present this young lady to you.

She is the most beautiful creature I have overheld.

She's not handsome enough to tempt me.

In this Jubilee year, expect a resurgence of pride and prejudice,

widely considered to be Jane Austen's finest creation.

She's probably standing shoulder to shoulder with Shakespeare.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom

I can truly love.

Their works packed with emotional intelligence of the kind we get from Shakespeare, in

fact.

You are the loveliest girls I ever set eyes on.

Can you not get the married, Mrs. Dashwood?

She also was a pioneer of the novel.

She developed the psychological novel.

Catherine Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at Oxford University

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