Posted in Jane Austen in the News, tagged Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland on 26 October 2010 | 17 Comments »
Jane Austen can’t spell, sucked at grammar and punctuation, and needed a man to complete her! So says Oxford scholar Kathryn Sutherland!
Hominy grits!
I was going to coldly ignore this folly and nonsense; deignfully not acknowledging its existence; but this is just the outside of enough. The media has grabbed on to Sutherland’s grandstanding publicity tripe and a full on scandal has erupted. It started on Saturday, October 23 with Richard Garner’s report in The Independent…
where "There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place
nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, 21 April 1805
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