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What Jane Austen was as a novelist has been told a great many times, but what she was as a woman is not so well known. It is the purpose, therefore, of Mr. Oscar Fay Adams, in his "Story of Jane Austen's Life," to "place her before the world as the winsome, delightful woman that she really was, and thus to dispel the unattractive, not to say forbidding, mental picture that so many have formed...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...
More than two hundred members attended the annual meeting of the New York Harvard Club Saturday evening for the election of officers and the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Edward King; vice-president, Austen G. Fox; treasurer, Charles Howland Russell; secretary, Evert Jansen Wendell; managers, (to serve three years), Edmund Wetmore, T. Frank Brownell, J. Hampden Robb, Edward L. Parris, George H. Adams; committee on admissions, (to serve three years), George H. Sargent, James T. Kilbreth, Thomas S. Bettens, Wendell Baker, Lowell Lincoln, Jr., H. Le Roy Edgar, and Thomas Clyde...
...Twombley, Robert P. Perkins, James S. McCobb, W. S. Seamans, G. W. Van Nest, W. A. Pringle, Winthrop Cowdin, P. T. Barlow, James A. Wrght, Jr., Nathaniel S. Smith, Robert Sturgis, George M. Pinney, Jr., C. W. Wetmore, Edmund Wetmore, George H. Adams, Evert Jansen Wendell, Lawrence God-kin, Austen G. Fox, George Blagden, H. B. Richardson, Wendell Baker, Howard A. Taylor, Charles C. Beaman, F. R. Appleton, F. M. Bacon, Jr., Daniel P. Griswold...
...Clymer has an article in the March Scribner's on "Jane Austen...