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- ↑ G. B. Stern, Talking of Jane Austen (London 1946) p.73
- ↑ Claire Harman, Jane's Fame (Edinburgh 2009) p. 249
- ↑ R. Jenkyns, A Fine Brush on Ivory (Oxford 2007) p. 135-6
- ↑ E. Copeland, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge 1997) p. 38-9
- ↑ G. B. Stern, Talking of Jane Austen (London 1946) p.153
- ↑ G. B. Stern, Talking of Jane Austen (London 1946) p.74
- ↑ B. Hardy, Reading of Jane Austen (2000) p. 166
- ↑ B. Benedict ed. Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (Cambridge 2006) Introduction p. xxv
- ↑ Deidre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1996) p. 101-2 and Introduction p. x
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