Rebecca Romney > Quotes

“Of course, everyone reads novels, not just women, and not just younger women. But they were most often criticized as dangerous for that particular demographic, who were considered so impressionable that they were susceptible to imitating what they read.”
― Rebecca Romney

“The historian Randolph G. Adams said, “Each generation has to rewrite history for itself—and sometimes from the same sources used by previous generations.”
― Rebecca Romney, Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History

“. . . the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It’s called the Great Forgetting. Only Austen survived that period . . .”
― Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend