Jane Austen was the master of the free indirect speech. Today's literature students use this term "free indirect speech" quite frequently to analyze dialogues in fictions while studying. But it was Jane Austen who invented this way of writing along the way she wrote. By transforming this very genre of fiction, she's able to narrate stories in a more discursive manner and her fictions, as a result, became more nuanced. There were a lot of stylings going on in the conversations she penned.