He said it was because her characters were unlikable. - B. Clay Shannon

      From: Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]>
 To: [log in to unmask] 
 Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 10:45 AM
 Subject: Jane Ausren
   
Today's NYT Book Review is teeming with Jane Austen bicentennial stuff,
which brings to mind a question I've always meant to ponder sometime:
what's the reason for Twain's violent, near-pathological animus against the
woman? I've never understood it, and I wonder if any Forum members have any
thoughts on the subject.

 -- Pete Salwen