...first ground for defending women novelists, or novelists focusing their work on literate heroines. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body....unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. Presumably Austen herself...

...history, The Spectator and novels) with Fordyce's recommendations, which you read in the previous section: Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,...

...readers of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey may remember what she says in chapter 5: Although (novels) have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,...

...Jane Austen's implied question as she reminds us how little official appreciation the Novel has had: Let us leave it to the Reviewers to abuse such effusions...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried, From pride, ignorance,...

...contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding [. . .] Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than •> those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,...

...Papers, ed. John W. Blassingame, first series (1982). Speech, July 5, 1852, Rochester, NY. Fiction 1 Although our productions have afforded more extensive...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried.... "And what are you...

...novel, [are] sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust." The advice of Austen's narrator is: "Let us leave it to the Reviewers to abuse such effusions...strains of the trash with which the press now groans" (21). There is no gainsaying the pleasures Austen supplies when her characterization enables us to...

...itself.23 The author cites first the "abuse" of "such effusions of fancy" as novels, and then asserts that "our productions have afforded more extensive and...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world." She could be echoing Swift's Grub Street hack's claims for "our" modern...

...apostrophizing her readers, and indirectly taking a pot-shot at her colleagues, other 'lady novelists': Let us not desert one another — we are an injured...unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance,...

...Abbey, in which she vigorously defends novelists from the abuse of reviewers who over every new novel 'talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans', extends and amplifies the comment about the Austens not being ashamed to be novel-readers: There seems...