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1816
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Apr
01
Jane Austen declines royal librarian’s writing advice
Jane Austen responds to a letter from Rev. James Stanier Clarke, librarian to England's Prince Regent (the future King George IV), suggesting she write a historic romance, saying, “I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.”
Apr
21
May
05
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