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Jane Austen   /dʒeɪn ˈɔstɪn/   Listen
Jane Austen

noun
1.
English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817).  Synonym: Austen.






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"Jane Austen" Quotes from Famous Books



... have ever heard urged against Mrs. Wharton's fine art of narrative is that it is narrow—an art of dress suit and sophistication. And this book is the answer. For, of course, her art is narrow—like Jane Austen's, like Sheridan's, like Pope's, like Maupassant's, like that of all writers who prefer to study human nature in its most articulate instead of its broadest manifestations. It is narrow because it is focussed, but this does not mean that ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be ...
— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh



Words linked to "Jane Austen" :   Austen, writer, author



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