qtd. in
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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, editor of the Quarterly Review and a regular reader and advisor on manuscripts for John Murray
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Literary responses | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | William Gifford
panned this novel in the Quarterly. He ridiculed ATP
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