[etni] Austen gets "Could Do Better"
- From: Laura Shashua <lasha205@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:46:44 +0200
LONDON ? She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research
shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big
helping hand from her editor.
Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100
handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social
comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice." She said Saturday that they
contradicted the claim by Austen's brother Henry that "everything came
finished from her pen."
"In reading the manuscripts, it quickly becomes clear that this delicate
precision is missing," Sutherland said.
She said the papers show "blots, crossings out, messiness," and a writer who
"broke most of the rules for writing good English."
Read more at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101023/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_jane_austen
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