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George Austen and the proctors' revolt.(Miscellany; role of Jane Austen's father, George, in her works)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20020101
Author:Jones, Chris

JANE AUSTEN'S FATHER is acknowledged as one of the greatest influences on her writing, yet despite his encouragement for her wickedly unconventional juvenilia he has been seen as a conventional man. Irene Collins's latest study of George's influence includes the important emphasis on his mid-century Oxford education, based on the growing recognition of the currency of Enlightenment thought in the University and in the Anglican Church (Young 4-15). Many of the characteristics attributed to George Austen, however, are still based on generalisations about what might be expected of a ...

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