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."