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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. 2 Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott were born within four years of each other , in 1775 and 1771 respectively , but though Jane Austen was admired in her lifetime , by no one more generously ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. 2 Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott were born within four years of each other , in 1775 and 1771 respectively , but though Jane Austen was admired in her lifetime , by no one more generously ...
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... Jane's triumph in the battle of the sexes . Synopsize it , and the story of Jane Eyre immediately becomes nonsense . For years Mr Rochester has kept a lunatic wife on the third floor of his country house , in the charge of a gin ...
... Jane's triumph in the battle of the sexes . Synopsize it , and the story of Jane Eyre immediately becomes nonsense . For years Mr Rochester has kept a lunatic wife on the third floor of his country house , in the charge of a gin ...
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... Jane finds Rochester and marries him . He partially recovers his sight , and they have a child . Jane Eyre is as absurd in its own way as The Castle of Otranto or anything in Mrs Radcliffe . Yet to describe it simply as a wish ...
... Jane finds Rochester and marries him . He partially recovers his sight , and they have a child . Jane Eyre is as absurd in its own way as The Castle of Otranto or anything in Mrs Radcliffe . Yet to describe it simply as a wish ...
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