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Jane Austen's First Buyer? Likely Prinny.

7/31/2018

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It's been fun playing a small role in the publicity surrounding graduate student Nick Foretek's discovery in the Georgian Papers Programme archives that the likely first purchaser of Austen's first novel was none other than the Prince Regent. Read more about Nick's discovery--and a few quotes from snarky, amused scholars  (I will cop to being both!)--in Jennifer Schuessler's fine piece in the New York Times from July 24th. 

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    ​I'm happily at work on several projects, including a genuine Jane Austen quotation book, The Daily Jane Austen, for the University of Chicago Press (out fall 2019), and a biography on sister novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter. When I can elbow my way into it, I also write on roller derby, women, and sports.

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