Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… (1817) appeals for common cause amongst fellow (mainly female) novelists to ‘not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary … intercourse and recreation in the novels: Ford’s general store in Emma , for example, is ‘the very shop that every body attends every day of their lives’, making it the ideal locus for the exchange of news and gossip (Austen, Emma , …
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