Miss Austen’s novels … seem vulgar tone, sterile artistic invention, i — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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