Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of {two} facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.
( Virginia Woolf )
[ A Room of One's Own ]
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