Discuss Elena Ferrante’s observations on Austen’s anonymity with reference to either Northanger Abbey or Sense and Sensibility.

“It seems to me that Austen, by not putting her name on the books she published, did the same thing as Elinor, and in an extremely radical way. She uses neither her own name nor one that she has chosen. Her stories are not reducible to her; rather, they are written from within a tradition that encompasses her and at the same time allows her to express herself. In this sense they are indeed written by a lady, the lady who does not fully coincide with everyday life but peeks out during the often brief time when, in a common room, a space not hers, Austen can write without being disturbed: a lady who disappears whenever something – the disorderly world of the everyday – interrupts her, forcing her to hide the pages. Discuss Elena Ferrante’s observations on Austen’s anonymity with reference to either Northanger Abbey or Sense and Sensibility.