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23 January 2006

Spinning

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 1:22 am

Apparently there’s some sort of sex scandal involving politicians in Winchester, and the Telegraph has decided to drag poor Jane into it.

Above the usual prattle of tourists, they might be able to make out a strange rhythmic scraping from beneath the stone slabs - the peculiar, but unmistakable sound of Jane Austen gently spinning in her grave.

For while no one can be sure what Winchester’s most famous resident and England’s best loved novelist would have made of the weekend’s sex scandal, it is unlikely that she would have entirely approved.

” Jane Austen may have been protected from the truth but precious little of the truth was protected from her.” - G.K. Chesterton

Just saying. :)

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