This is a bicentennial year for Jane Austen, the author of the classic novels Persuasion, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey.

Austen died aged 41, on July 17th 1817, and two centuries on she remains one of the world’s most popular authors. Her life will be marked with a series of events around the world - as well as on the face of Britain's new ten pound note.

But Helena Kelly argues that we’ve been misreading Jane Austen all these years, and that behind the drawing room dramas and romance, her work is simmering with radical ideas.