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    Love's Raging Rash: I Accidentally Read a Romance Novel

    AUGUST 8, 2012 10:01AM

    By Ann Nichols


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    Is Jane Austen Overrated?

    FEBRUARY 10, 2010 3:02AM

    By john blumenthal


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    The Sins of Jane Austen--and why the NYT is wrong

    APRIL 8, 2009 9:17AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


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