Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Plan of a Novel

1816
Jane Austen
Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters
B-

Nice little parody of a summary for a novel that Austen never wrote, "The name of the work not to be Emma."  My favorite bit is how the Hero is "only prevented from paying his addresses to [the Heroine], by some excess of refinement," which sounds like a satire of Fanny Burney among others.

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