Comment by neom

I'll lend to that. If you use Edmund Burke as the yardstick, calling her conservative is defensible because she believed complex social orders evolve from the bottom up vs grand schemes. My thought is she generally applied this thinking, and that thinking is traditionally conservative. I suppose she is a "radical localist" who stole bits she liked from every side... was a pragmatic, anti‑ideologue, but I do still feel in reading her works, she's is more frequently aligned conservatives than not.

I suppose that is also part of the joy in Jane.