"She knew what she knew, like a sound dogmatist: she did not know what she did not — like a sound agnostic."
— 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
Original Language: English

Sources

G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) [University of Notre Dame Press, 1963], Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 53)