Word: austen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SANDITON by JANE AUSTEN...
...only a few months before she died of Addison's disease at the age of 42, Jane Austen managed to start a new novel but had to break off after 26,000 words. The result was a fragment that would tantalize posterity. Though it jangled with a bumptious satire reminiscent of Austen's youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic...
...questions remained: Which of the half-dozen plots set spinning in the work's opening chapters would Austen have developed? How would the forerunner of James and Proust have finished the novel...
...stupider or basically inferior to men. For example, for two hundred years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled chintz...
...eight professors are: Karl F. Austen, professor of medicine; Eugene Braunwald, Hersey Professor of Physics; William D. Cochran'45, assistant clinical professor of pediatrics; Jerome Gross, professor of medicine; Hendrick S. Houthakker, professor of economics; Wassily W. Leontief, Lee Professor of Economics; C. Frederick Mosteller, professor of mathematical statistics; Bert L. Vallee, Cabot Professor of Biological Chemistry...