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Jane Austen and adultery.(Conference Papers)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20020101
Author:Fullerton, Susannah

"... the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well known and captivating Mr C. ..."

(Mansfield Park)

"I AM PROUD TO SAY that I have a very good eye at an Adultress," boasted Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra on 12 May 1801. There is nothing immodest about the boast--Jane Austen did have an excellent eye "'at an Adultress." What is surprising is that she appears to make the boast with a sense of ...

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