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Was Jane Austen Edited? Does It Matter?

Even if Jane Austen's original punctuation was "slapdash or peculiar to modern eyes," linguist Geoff Nunberg says her "complex sentence structures are always already there." (Getty Images)
Even if Jane Austen's original punctuation was "slapdash or peculiar to modern eyes," linguist Geoff Nunberg says her "complex sentence structures are always already there." (Getty Images)

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