The Thread of Connection: Aspects of Fate in the Novels of Jane Austen and Others |
Contents
| 10 | |
A Lot to Decide | 39 |
A Womans Destiny | 62 |
Times Change and Fate | 85 |
Chapter Five The Fate of the Novel | 112 |
Chapter Six The Novelists Fate | 139 |
Appendix A Fate in the Novels of Some of Jane Austens Con | 166 |
Fate Destiny | 176 |
Appendix E The Inheritance of Fate in the Eighteenth Century | 189 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 205 |
INDEX | 212 |
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