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Devoney Looser
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January 14th, 2024
Sister Novelists named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title I'm thrilled that Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice for 2023. Please consider recommending it for purchase by your public, college, or university library? I'm truly grateful when this biography of the Porter sisters has a chanc
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"Consider Jane and Marie Porter. They wrote around the same time as Austen; their historicals were international best sellers 15 years before Sir Walter Scott supposedly invented the genre. They were celebrities.
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“That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)”
― The Making of Jane Austen
― The Making of Jane Austen
“The longstanding neglect of the fascinating, pioneering group of women writers of the Romantic period is now a thing of the past . . . [but] our merely recognizing their existence does not mean that our work is done.”
― The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
― The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that you could put almost anything in the second half of this sentence, because the first half sounds clever and wise and must remind readers of the genius of Jane Austen.”
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that you could put almost anything in the second half of this sentence, because the first half sounds clever and wise and must remind readers of the genius of Jane Austen.”
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
“Quoting her [Jane Austen] is the second-best recipe for happiness I've ever heard of.”
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
― The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes
“But rather than end this book with any truth universally acknowledged, I'll riff with this: I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend haughty, highbrow exclusivity or celebrate uncritical adulation.”
― The Making of Jane Austen
― The Making of Jane Austen
“The longstanding neglect of the fascinating, pioneering group of women writers of the Romantic period is now a thing of the past . . . [but] our merely recognizing their existence does not mean that our work is done.”
― The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
― The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period
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