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Old 02-09-2013, 11:07 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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":
Interesting, Harry. I read a ton of English Romance novels (meaning the literary period, not the genre) growing up, mostly Penguin Classics, and either I never noticed the extra dashes in Austen's novels because they never bothered me, or Penguin "corrected" them away.

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