The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller. CHAPTER X JANE AUSTEN THE literary descent of Jane Austen's fiction is plain to trace . Its ancestors were the work of Defoe , the Roger de Coverly papers in The Spectator , the fiction of ...
Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller. CHAPTER X JANE AUSTEN THE literary descent of Jane Austen's fiction is plain to trace . Its ancestors were the work of Defoe , the Roger de Coverly papers in The Spectator , the fiction of ...
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... Jane Austen was personally angry with them ) , and in a too rarely dissipated atmosphere of reproof about Elinor . The spirit of pure comedy is not so constant in Sense and Sensibility as in any other novel that Jane Austen wrote ...
... Jane Austen was personally angry with them ) , and in a too rarely dissipated atmosphere of reproof about Elinor . The spirit of pure comedy is not so constant in Sense and Sensibility as in any other novel that Jane Austen wrote ...
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... Jane Austen herself , Eliza- beth Bennet was ' as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print ' ; and Pride and Prejudice ( immediately upon its publication ) was ' her own darling child . ' With subsequent generations , it has been ...
... Jane Austen herself , Eliza- beth Bennet was ' as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print ' ; and Pride and Prejudice ( immediately upon its publication ) was ' her own darling child . ' With subsequent generations , it has been ...
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