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Author: Amanda French

Amanda has a doctorate in English and doesn't regret it a bit. She likes to write now and then about how the study of literature and history is being changed by technology, or sometimes just about literary history. She tweets at @amandafrench and blogs occasionally at amandafrench.net.

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She refused, refused, refused.

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His legacy precedes him.

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Who is your Jane Austen?

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L.M. Montgomery

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A Victorian — but no apologist for Victorian values.

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Amanda French on DIPLOMA REGULAR

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“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”

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A poetess with a talent for assured incongruity.

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P.G. Wodehouse

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His writing was a testament to the joy of frustration.

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David Foster Wallace

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention.

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Jeanette Winterson

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Interested in all manner of things, from cancer to clementines.

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A tireless activist, funny and trenchant.

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Philip Larkin

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He wrote poems with punch.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

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What linked her lowbrow mysteries and highbrow scholarship?

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Henri Rousseau

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His paintings say “Mine! Mine!” and cannot be consoled or reasoned with.

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