Addendum

Even More From Linus


Ask me.  
Austen’s restrained Regency romances looked old-fashioned and irrelevant and met with very mixed critical responses. G.H. Lewes was an ardent advocate, but Charlotte Bronte thought her second rate…

How Jane Austen Conquered the World, by Claire Harman

(those are fighting words Charlotte Bronte. don’t even let me get started on Jane Eyre.  dramatic much?)

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