Literary Break #3: Jane Austen's Fight Club

I know Jane Austen is a British author and all that, plus she predeceased Emily Dickinson's birth by more than a handful of years, but she's been on my mind as we read Dickinson's poetry.

Possibly because of the common misconception of Emily Dickinson as something of a weird Regency/Victorian recluse...a fragile hothouse bloom shut away from the world at large under the protective wing of family...traipsing about in white clothing and never leaving the confines of her home...pressing greenery into herbarium albums and living the life genteel...

I think her reputation could use some of this:

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