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Jane Austen

The novelist, referenced as a literary example of domestic realism.

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First appearance: what s wrong with the world

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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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when Chesterton confesses his shame at realizing "comparatively la…

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