What’s Wrong with the World · Character
Jane Austen
The novelist, referenced as a literary example of domestic realism.
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Jane Austen shows up with force in XIV: Folly and Female Education. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Praised as stronger, sharper, and shrewder than Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, and able to 'coolly and sensibly describe a man.'
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In XIV: Folly and Female Education: Praised as stronger, sharper, and shrewder than Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, and able to 'coolly…
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