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Jane Austen

by Elizabeth Jenkins

Pages: 412

Contributors: Elizabeth Jenkins

Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1949

Subjects: Fiction,Austen, Jane,--1775-1817

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