Incidentally this reminds me how in popular memory we act as if Alcott, Austen, Melville, the Shelleys, Stoker, Twain, etc. were all contemporaries when in fact they lived and thrived decades apart.https://twitter.com/gerrycanavan/status/1222248200616206339 …
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect
This is a big thing for me; I get sweaty when people lump Jane Austen with the Brontes, because apart from being notable women writers from the wide berth of first half of the 19th century, that’s literally god damn it
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Replying to @whyangelinawhy @nivenus
Pride and Prejudice, to be fair, is an outlier here because it was "ahead of its time", it always gets lumped in with work later than it (including in Charlotte Brontë's lifetime, where they kept saying Jane Eyre must've been influenced by it to her heart displeasure)
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