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How Jane Austen’s women transcend their (banal and brutal) world
Hello dear friends,
If you’re like me, when you mention the works and stories of Jane Austen, you have some explaining to do. Many of the non-Austen readers in our lives envision Austen novels as stories about women sitting by a hearthside embroidering and dreaming of marriage.
Our colleagues, and family, and friends might think of Austen’s plots as the…
