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- Austen, Jane (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the novelist who "creates as profound an understanding and as precise a vision of the potentialities of the human spirit as the art of fiction has ever achieved. " 8-01
- Austen, Jane (The Free Dictionary)
Provides a biography of the novelist. "Jane Austen's novels are comedies of manners that depict the self-contained world of provincial ladies and gentlemen. Most of her works revolve around the delicate business of providing husbands for marriageable daughters. She is particularly noted for her vivid delineations and lively interplay of character, her superb sense of comic irony, and her moral firmness."
"Today she is regarded as one of the great masters of the English novel." 9-05
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