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1802: Jane Austen and her world 200 years ago.(Conference Papers)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20020101
Author:Lane, Maggie

WHEN, AT THE BANQUET in Quebec in 1998, Clifford Collier asked me whether I might give the keynote speech at the 2002 JASNA conference in Toronto, it darted into my head with the speed of an arrow--not that Clifford must marry nobody but myself--but that it would be fun to take the year 1802 and describe what was happening in Jane Austen's life and in the wider world, as a kind of prelude to the more detailed investigations into different aspects of this world by subsequent speakers. My thinking was that by focusing on one year out of Jane Austen's forty-one, I would set myself ...

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