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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen | Fay Weldon
8 posts | 10 read | 7 to read
When her niece complains that Jane Austen is tedious and has little relevance, the author offers a defence of literature and reading
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LeahBergen This book sounds great. 7y
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I would like to take a literature class with Weldon, because she put forth some cool ideas, but I‘d like them fleshed out more than the format allowed. Still, it was a good read.

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Discover this read on onhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BXsEpK8ltbB/

Delightful discussion of Jane Austen, writing, and life in general. #austeninaugust

LeahBergen This sounds great! 7y
batsy I enjoyed this one, too! 7y
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"Truly, Alice, books are wonderful things: to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged. To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will." From a book I found but haven't yet read...Weldon writes in epistolary form in response to her fictitious niece's complaint that Austen was boring and irrelevant.

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What do you post for #somethingforsept on #womenwriters day when your shelves overflow with literary ladies and amazing gals? Pick and leave some out? Nah, I went back and found the women who made sense of it for me when it mattered in college. Thanks for appearing when I needed you and helping make sense of all the noise 📚❤️💕

#septemberphotochallenge #literaryladies

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