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Article: Searching for Jane Austen: restoring the "fleas" and "bad breath".(AGM 2005: Milwaukee)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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JUST MONTHS AFTER HIS SISTER DIED, Henry Austen published a brief biographical notice included with the posthumous publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. "Short and easy will be the task of the mere biographer," rued Henry Austen, concluding that nothing much happened to his sister (3). He shared with readers an account of Jane Austen's height, graceful carriage, proper deportment, pleasing features, and modest cheeks; he stressed her piety and emphasized her humility. He failed to mention, however, that she wrote saucy adolescent burlesques filled with outrageous heroines who murder their parents and poison their rivals. He also chose not to say that his sister ...
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