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Profile: Lost sex scenes from Jane Austen's manuscripts

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Date: 20010328
Author:RENEE MONTAGNE

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Profile: Lost sex scenes from Jane Austen's manuscripts

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Discovering a heretofore unknown work of a famous author is a rare event. Two amateur Jane Austen scholars say they've stumbled on something rarer, indeed: manuscripts of erotic scenes cut from Austen's novels. In fact, the scenes would seem to explain certain puzzling moments in the great author's books. Why the steady Mr. Knightley was furious at the easy-going Frank Churchill. What was that mysterious malady that kept Jane at Netherfield(ph)? ...

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