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September 18, 2007

On reading other novels

"I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled."

letter to Cassandra, on trying to get a copy of Mary Brunton's Self-controul
April 30, 1811 [72]

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