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    Searching for Jane Austen

    Searching for Jane Austen by Emily Auerbach My rating: 1 of 5 stars I added this book to my required reading list for my research while preparing to write my graduate thesis on Jane Austen and her works. I just closed the book and I am half agony, half frustrated for having read it. The first chapter takes a great stab at Jane’s nephew’s biography on his aunt titled Memoir, attempting to dispel the image of “dear Aunt Jane”; a timid, sweet-tempered little woman, whose main calling in life was the keeping of her house. The tone of this first chapter is that of anger with more than a hint…

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