Charlotte Bronte has been quoted expressing a distaste for Jane Austen's works. Here, after reading Emma:

"...the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood...'

and on Pride and Prejudice: "An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck."