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(A)       Austen's novels engendered, or led to, much interest in Austen herself, but she avoided literary circles and
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(B)       Although a  private person, Austen apparently was not an introvert; she was lively and outgoing among family and friends.
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(C) The family may have regarded Austen's habit of writing in the sitting room as out of the ordinary, but they tolerated this idiosyncrasy.
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(D)       What some people would regard as humdrum domestic duties occupied much of Austen's time. I wonder whether she found them as dull as my friends and I would.
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(E)       Austen received much of her education from her father, a teacher and minister. I imagine that he was a serious, learned man who wrote scholarly homilies on religious topics.
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(F)       We might not ascribe an interest in acting to Austen, but such an interest was very much a part of her
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(G)       She performed in home theatrical shows. Do you think this experience was significant or inconsequential to Austen as a novelist?
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(H)       No one could complain that Austen was writing hackneyed stories; her work was never trite or unoriginal.
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Austen considered her older sister Cassandra to be a paragon of talent. She especially admired Cassandra's comic work.
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 (J)    Cassandra wrote lovingly, even poetically, of her sister. Do you know if a family member wrote an elegy to mourn Jane's death in 1817?
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