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"The problem was that she was too original. Her novels would be too unusual – indeed too ‘novel’ – for publishers to realise at first just how good they were."
The above about Jane Austen reminds me of Emily Dickinson, who had a poem published in a newspaper in her lifetime by a man who changed it and made it dramatically, obviously worse (but thought he was improving it).
— Nov 24, 2020 09:41AM
The above about Jane Austen reminds me of Emily Dickinson, who had a poem published in a newspaper in her lifetime by a man who changed it and made it dramatically, obviously worse (but thought he was improving it).
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Jane had to fight against domestic duties to ‘find the time’ in a way that did not offend her family or their notions of what a spinster aunt should do. This was her battle, a grimy, unexciting, quotidian domestic battle, about who should do which chores. It’s a battle that still holds women back. It’s a battle that continues to this day.
— Nov 14, 2020 01:06PM