Jane Austen's works can truly touch every aspect of our lives. Here is a New York Times article, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/opinion/jane-austens-guide-to-alzheimers.html, about how Austen's novel Emma helped one woman during a caregiving crisis in her life:
Early on in tending to my mother, who had Alzheimer’s, I was sustained by other Austen novels, but during the middle stages of her disease it was all “Emma,” all the time. What started as entertainment soon became an important guide.
