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“Jane Austen’s Well-Known Style Owed Much to Her Editor, Scholar Argues”

October 23, 2010

Punctuation and Persuasion: A scholar believes that a punctilious” editor cleaned up Austen’s grammar and punctuation and that the novelist’s manuscripts show her to be a more experimental writer than she’s given credit for being. But the real story here may be the just-completed digital edition of Austen’s manuscripts.”

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