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... Jane Austen The present age has been perhaps more persistent than any other in declaring that literature must maintain close contact with affairs and be animated by an acute social consciousness . Yet it is in the present age that Jane ...
... Jane Austen The present age has been perhaps more persistent than any other in declaring that literature must maintain close contact with affairs and be animated by an acute social consciousness . Yet it is in the present age that Jane ...
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... Jane Austen quickens in attentive readers without ceasing to entertain them . Born in 1775 she was the youngest of seven children of the Rev. George Austen , rector of Steventon in Hampshire , where she lived until 1801 when the family ...
... Jane Austen quickens in attentive readers without ceasing to entertain them . Born in 1775 she was the youngest of seven children of the Rev. George Austen , rector of Steventon in Hampshire , where she lived until 1801 when the family ...
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... Jane Austen's share of the sales proceeds was £ 150 and that Egerton was sufficiently pleased to take the revised ... Austen- Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen , 2nd edn . , 1871 ) , and Sanditon ( written 1817 , unpublished until 1925 ) ...
... Jane Austen's share of the sales proceeds was £ 150 and that Egerton was sufficiently pleased to take the revised ... Austen- Leigh's Memoir of Jane Austen , 2nd edn . , 1871 ) , and Sanditon ( written 1817 , unpublished until 1925 ) ...
Contents
UNTIL CHAUCER | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE 3333 | 43 |
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