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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2 comments:

  1. Carolyn Priest-DormanMay 7, 2020 at 12:37 PM

    Jane Austen.

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  2. John D. RateliffMay 7, 2020 at 6:19 PM

    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.

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