human
Any friend of Mr. Bingley's will always be welcome here, to be sure; but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him,
gpt
I admire all my three sons-in-law highly. Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like _your_ husband quite as well as Jane's. If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.
human
Northanger Abbey was written in 1798, revised for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a Bath bookseller, who held it in such light esteem that, after allowing it to remain for many years on his shelves, he was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum which he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was already the author of four popular novels. This story--which is, of course, a skit on the
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novel of Mrs. Radcliffe's school--was not published till after its author's death, when, in 1818, it was bound up with her last book,
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Persuasion.