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#OnThisDay, 23 Dec 1815, the much-anticipated fourth novel “by the author of Pride and Prejudice”, Emma, is published.

Jane Austen died 18 months later, never seeing her work published under her name. This wasn't that unusual at the time: women who wrote would obscure their identity on their work, even if their authorship of it was common knowledge.

We're rather fond of the 2020 adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmcJEeeT-us

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