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Ashley is 2% done

Oh shit, this is already five stars. She's quoted Sherlock Holmes like six times in ten minutes. And she's talking about the Great Forgetting and how men deliberately left women out of the literary canon, even though they were the writers of most of the novels in Jane Austen's lifetime.

— May 28, 2026 01:46PM

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Ashley is 69% done

She fell in love with her GUARDIAN who was A PRIEST? In 1791??? Smash that add to TBR button.

— 7 hours, 24 min ago

Ashley is 50% done

I love that she included this important author in here that neither she nor Jane Austen liked, because she was a sanctimonious moralizer (Hannah More, in case you're curious).

— 11 hours, 10 min ago

Ashley is 44% done

I now have $100 of books in my online cart. Thanks, Rebecca! It's your fault if I click 'purchase' on this.

— 15 hours, 9 min ago

Ashley is 31% done

This is making me want to give Evelina and The Mysteries of Udolpho another shot. They were both 3-star reads for me. I haven't read Evelina since grad school.

— May 28, 2026 07:25PM

Ashley is 20% done

She is also a Pamela hater. Increasingly feeling I must be friends with this author.

— May 28, 2026 05:09PM

Ashley is 17% done

Men pitting women against each other professionally was happening in the early 1800s, it's not new. Jane Austen "won," and that's why she's in the Canon.

— May 28, 2026 04:14PM

Ashley is 16% done

Fanny Burney's life story would make an incredible movie.

— May 28, 2026 04:07PM

Ashley is 14% done

she burned her manuscripts 😱😱😱

— May 28, 2026 04:00PM

Ashley is 8% done

Welp, I guess I'll be rereading all the Austen again soon.

— May 28, 2026 02:41PM

Ashley is 3% done

Ahh, yes, we have ourselves an autistic author. (She hasn't said so, I just know.)