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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20010418
Author:GEETA SHARMA JENSEN

A real prejudice for Jane Austen

By GEETA SHARMA JENSEN

Journal Sentinel book editor

Wednesday, April 18, 2001

It was 1812. Jane Austen had just published her novel "Sense and Sensibility," paying some of the publishing costs with money borrowed from her brother. Her publisher printed 1,000 copies.

And then the reviews came in.

The Morning Chronicle made note of "a New Novel by a Lady--." The Critical Review said "the incidents are probable, and highly pleasing, and interesting; the conclusion such as the reader must wish it should be, and the whole is just long enough to interest without ...

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