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Article: Virgin sacrifice: elizabeth bennet after jane austen. (Confrence Papers).(Critical Essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Edward Copeland is F. S. Jennings Professor of English at Pomona College. His publications include Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (CUP 1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (CUP 1997), which he co-edited with Juliet McMaster. He served as president of the Jane Austen Society Southwest, 1984-86.
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