Austen’s view of herself as a writer the miniaturist with 'the little bit . of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush” should not be mistaken for the self-deprecation of a shrinking violet. On the contrary, it was a confident and honest self-appraisal by a mature novelist who had committed herself determinedly to write only about what she had personally observed or heard
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