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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Austen, Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | For reasons unkown, Crosby failed to publish Susan so it languished until bought back by Henry Austen in 1809 (and then languished again until, after Austen's death, Henry provided the new title and sold it and Persuasion to John Murray in 1817). |
| | Only in the 1810s, when the political climate was less nervous and when Austen's work itself had undergone several revisions, notably dropping epistolary narration, the predominant eighteenth-century mode, and inventing a new narrative — impersonal, ironic omniscience — was it to be commercially acceptable. |
| | Austen's apparently settled and productive life as a writer was transformed utterly in May 1801 when George Austen retired from his Steventon living, hired his eldest son as a curate in his stead, and moved to Bath. |
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