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A Short Critical History Walter 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 than by ...
A Short Critical History Walter 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 than by ...
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... Jane Austen is made possible precisely by the recognition of limits . may It be asked : Did Miss Austen know what she was doing ? She lived , after all , before it was common for the novelist to regard himself as an artist ; she had no ...
... Jane Austen is made possible precisely by the recognition of limits . may It be asked : Did Miss Austen know what she was doing ? She lived , after all , before it was common for the novelist to regard himself as an artist ; she had no ...
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... Jane Austen . James , noting his ' complete appreciation of the usual ' , added that ' this gift is not rare in the annals of English fiction ; it would naturally be found in a walk of literature in which the feminine mind has laboured ...
... Jane Austen . James , noting his ' complete appreciation of the usual ' , added that ' this gift is not rare in the annals of English fiction ; it would naturally be found in a walk of literature in which the feminine mind has laboured ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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