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Originally Posted by HarryT
Forgive me for pointing this out, but this is not an error, but the way Austen wrote it. Many words were hyphenated in her day which are not today (or "to-day" as Austen would have written), and she uses dashes frequently before and after quotation marks, and after commas and semicolons. If you read any edition of Austen which does not have this, you're not reading the original. Some editors do "modernise" the punctuation, but I prefer to stick with what the author wrote.
Eg, a couple of random samples from "Pride and Prejudice":
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I'm seeing the same thing in the Oz books with hyphenated words like to-day and to-morrow. Like you, I don't mind it if it's the way the author wrote it. I'm actually working on cleaning up a few of the PG versions of the Oz books, mostly for myself, but I may share when I'm done.
