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Heads and arms and legs enough: Jane Austen and sibling dynamics.(Miscellany)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20040101
Author:Souter, Kay Torney

How soon, the difference of temper in Children appears!--Jemima has a very irritable bad Temper (her Mother says so)--and Julia a very sweet one, always pleased & happy.

--Jane Austen to Fanny Knight (13 March 1817)

JANE AUSTEN'S EARLY CORRESPONDENCE frequently shows the young satirist in rollicking bad taste as she entertains her older sister with rude remarks about family resemblance in her acquaintance: the bad breath of all tire Misses Debary (20-21 November 1800); the "fat girls with short noses" who "all prove to be Miss Atkinsons" (20-21 November 1800); the ...

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