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Several Austen references

Linda Jarvis

Cox [1912-1998] was a British playwright who adapted books by Dickens and other classic lit

Her works continue to be performed

17232 History background materialWatkins writes in his introduction that his study of Barbauld, Yearsley, and Baillie, has convinced him that they are worthy of deep study, and that they "are among the most important poetic statements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and should be placed alongside the works by Blake and Wordsworth for their visionary sophistication and revolutionary thought." He explains that it's difficult to read a single poem and understand