Of course, there were dragons

Of course there were dragons—that’s how I introduce Jane Austen’s Dragons.

How can you say that? It is rather a bold claim. I confess, you’re not the first person to ask me that with a decidedly skeptical look. After all, you’ve devoured ever one of Austen’s works cover to cover, multiple times and there’s nary a dragon scale from “It’s a truth universally acknowledged to… “With they Gardiners they were on most intimate terms…”

On the surface, I would agree, it seems that way. But, there is more...