Before we come to unsettling topics, the beginning of the article sent by Sparrow is VERY interesting .
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Her reputation as one of the country’s greatest female authors may rest on her elegant writing style.
But Jane Austen could not spell or correctly use punctuation, and wrote in a ‘regional accent’, according to a study of her handwritten work.
Professor Kathryn Sutherland, an Oxford University academic, said that manuscripts showed that her finished work was corrected by an editor.
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Not only did the editor manage to detect and correct her "regional writing" and transform it into formal English prose, but he (I assume it's a man) managed to do so while keeping her writing style, the strength of her messages and the wit of her prose. That's one hell of a great editor there.