On Wed, 06 Sep 1995 "ALAN C. REESE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
=Prety brave to be interlopin' in a Twain list sniffin' around for a
=Jane "Austin" list considerin' Twain's opinion of her work which he
=called "thoroughly artificial." During a sea voyage he finds the
=ship's library devoid of JA books and comments,"That one omission
=alonewould make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book
=in it." Another time he said,"Every time I read P&J, I want to dig her
=up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone."
 
...and didn't he also once say it's a shame that she was allowed to die a
natural death? :-)
 
Bonnie Howard
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