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Austen's line 'Pictures of perfection make me sick & wicked' sums up what is most remarkable in her craft and philosophy.
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- Devoney Looser American literary scholar
It’s just one line from Austen’s pen, in a private letter musing about heroines of novels. But it might serve as an abridgment of what’s most admirable and remarkable about her craft and philosophy, in its unconventional—and dare I say wild?—aspects.
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