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Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read
"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.
Review: Jane Austen fans, get ready to be turned on to the books she loved
We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants ...
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The Forgotten Writers Who Influenced Jane Austen
JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney It is a truth universally acknowledged (at least in publishing ...
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Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read
A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...
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Jane Austen’s favorite writers finally get their due
A few years ago, rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney bought a gorgeous edition of the 18th-century novel “Evelina” by Frances Burney, a writer she had heard of but never read. Curious, she decided ...
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In 'Jane Austen's Bookshelf,' read about the women writers who shaped the novelist
Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.