Thread: Georgette Heyer - An appreciation by Stephen Fry
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Old 10-14-2021, 07:25 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by hildea View Post
Uncle Robin: Thanks for the history of "selfless" etc -- I guess I misunderstood Kowal's article, and she avoided those words not because they were anachronistic, but because she made a choice to write in a language similar to Austen's.
That seems likely - I think Quoth's demonstration sentence showed that it is possible to create an anachronistic whole out of parts that aren't
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