Jane Austen's bookshelf : a rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend
Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She read and reread all her books, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn't a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers--and clues about those women are sprinkled like bread crumbs throughout Austen's work. Every character in Northanger Abbey who isn't a boor sings the praises of Ann Radcliffe. The phras...
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