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And whereas , if she had been able to write only what she wrote best , she would have stopped at the finest of the sketches in Our Village and Belford Regis , she failed in plays and opera , edited appalling annuals , dunned her ...
And whereas , if she had been able to write only what she wrote best , she would have stopped at the finest of the sketches in Our Village and Belford Regis , she failed in plays and opera , edited appalling annuals , dunned her ...
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Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes allowed ) , made fun of such writers when she caused Mary Crawford ...
Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes allowed ) , made fun of such writers when she caused Mary Crawford ...
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As a young girl she wrote with polish ; but she grew careless , and she ended in a garrulous flurry of words . The great ones gave more of themselves , and had more to give . I dare not discuss the Paston ladies , or Dorothy Osborne's ...
As a young girl she wrote with polish ; but she grew careless , and she ended in a garrulous flurry of words . The great ones gave more of themselves , and had more to give . I dare not discuss the Paston ladies , or Dorothy Osborne's ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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