Character and Characterization in Jane Austen
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As a massive force for change in literature, heroinism was born, like so much else that was revolutionary, in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth. We still have an imperfect idea of the numbers and quality of the women writers at work in that period, one which resembles our own in the sense that what Gina Luria calls 'The Feminist Controversy" was present in the consciousness of every writer, whatever his or her sexual politics. — Ellen Moers, 125
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