On St Swithin
's day, three days before she died, JA
wrote a comic but also potentially serious poem which imagines the saint cursing the fashionable occasion of Winchester races with rain.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production
Elizabeth Elstob
William Bowyer
, EE
's publisher, issued her pamphlet compilation Some Testimonies of Learned Men, in Favour of the Intended Edition of the Saxon Homilies, in the form of a letter, which she dated...