Jane Austen

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is a terrible writer. It seems a great pity they allowed her to die a natural death.

It seems a great pity they allowed · Jane Austen to die a natural death.

is a writer whose novels are vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer . . . is marriageableness.

Miss Austen's novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer . . . is marriageableness.

is an awful writer. Every time you read her you just want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

is awful. Any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by her. Even if it contains no other book.

No-one could probably hate another writer more than Twain hated Austen. Whilst he didn't do a Mailer and head butt her, he was never afraid to talk about his disdain for the author, saying, “Any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.

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