"[M]ost of us, male and female, are as children compared with this one glorious human being."
— Jane Austen

January 1, 1970

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Novelists from EnglandAnglicans from the United KingdomWomen authors from EnglandJane AustenWomen born before the 19th century
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Sources

Wayne C. Booth, The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 434