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Message from the president: "Lovely and Amazing": why the heroines of Jane Austen's world truly are.

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20020101
Author:Ray, Joan Klingel

JASNA'S delightful and educational 2002 Toronto AGM, "Jane Austen's World," was sandwiched between two minor events in my personal life that, at first view, may seem entirely discrete occurrences and in no way related to Jane Austen. The first event was my reading in The New York Times of October 6th a feature by Tamar Lewin headlined "A New Book, Featuring Another Spineless Woman," which began:

 
   Oh, where are the heroines of yesteryear? The strong, the virtuous, 
   the impeccably competent: Anitgone, Nancy Drew, Jane Eyre. 
   And most especially, Elizabeth Bennet, Jane ...

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