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Page 108
... Miss Austen was delineating the restricted life of a provincial lady , Scott , taking eight hundred years of Scots , English , and French history as his province , was changing the whole course of the novel throughout Europe . Indeed ...
... Miss Austen was delineating the restricted life of a provincial lady , Scott , taking eight hundred years of Scots , English , and French history as his province , was changing the whole course of the novel throughout Europe . Indeed ...
Page 113
... Miss Austen's novels have usually preferred the later ones , Mansfield Park , Emma , and Persuasion , which were written after an interval of more than ten years . During that long silence , the reason for which we do not know , Miss ...
... Miss Austen's novels have usually preferred the later ones , Mansfield Park , Emma , and Persuasion , which were written after an interval of more than ten years . During that long silence , the reason for which we do not know , Miss ...
Page 117
... Miss Bates . Incidentally , Miss Bates , the garrulous , woolly - minded spinster , is an excellent example of Miss Austen's use of the minor character . Miss Bates rambles on , innocent and silly , almost in stream - of - consciousness ...
... Miss Bates . Incidentally , Miss Bates , the garrulous , woolly - minded spinster , is an excellent example of Miss Austen's use of the minor character . Miss Bates rambles on , innocent and silly , almost in stream - of - consciousness ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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