


What Austen has done for marriage and Oliver has done for the Trump campaign (“Make Donald Drumpf Again!”) is what Jacky Fleming has done for women in history. Net neutrality? Done! Credit card debt sales? Yes, please. Such ancestry is high praise indeed because I dearly love both Austen and Oliver: Jane, for her deft satire of the business of marriage and John, for his ability to use satire to make you angry and make you laugh at topics that you would have thought might bore you to tears.

If Jane Austen and John Oliver had a baby, and that baby could draw, she would be Jacky Fleming. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.If you are still feeling a little post-election malaise and wish you could take a hammer to the glass ceiling, then this charming book is the perfect remedy for what ails you.
