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1. 1. Jane Austen's Bookshelf

   The Books that Inspired Jane Austen and Her Characters

   

   Rebecca Romney explores the women writers who influenced Jane Austen—figures like Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and others—tracing their impact on Austen’s work and asking why their books fell out of favor. Through personal reading, searches for rare editions, and close connections between these authors’ novels and Austen’s, she reconstructs the bookshelf that shaped Austen and invites readers to rediscover overlooked women writers and reconsider how the literary canon is formed.

   The 12912th Greatest Book of All Time

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2. 2. Printer's Error

   

   Printer's Error is a 1939 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the tenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley.