“In the sect – fairly large and yet unusually choice – of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.”

— George Saintsbury

Preface to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894) p. ix

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British literary critic 1845–1933

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