Thursday, May 7, 2020

Literary Faces (V)

So, here's another. Possibly the best novelist of them all, yet shown here is one of only two contemporary depictions we have of her.

--JDR


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Carolyn Priest-Dorman said...

Jane Austen.

May 7, 2020 at 12:37 PM
John D. Rateliff said...

Yes, Austen.

I took this image from Lord David Cecil's excellent A PORTRAIT OF JANE AUSTEN (1978), so there's an Inkling connection as well. Accounts of the Inklings often fail to make clear Cecil's high repute as a biographer.
--JOHN R.

May 7, 2020 at 6:19 PM

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