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['This is a review of two books, not a biography. MNS20\n\nAccording to the Dutch translation of this article (could be slightly adapted to a Dutch audience, to be checked!), this article mentions [quotes are provisional translations]:\n\nIn part on Austen:\n- Ann Radcliffe (mention of her celebrated murder histories)\n- Frances Burney:\n \'When she wrote Pride and Prejudice, Austen was four years younger than Burney when she wrote Evelina\'\n \'Next to "Emma" and "Persuasion", even "Evelina" as a piece of art has but very little value.\'\n- Mrs. Bennet\n- Charlotte Smith:\n \'The Austen-novels have survived those by a Mrs. Bennett and Charlotte Smith, just as those by the kindhearted, unlettered quaker, Amelia Opie [...]\'\n- Amelia Opie\n- Mme de Stael:\n \'We\'ve never heard that Austen came to London, but for one anecdote (and perhaps that one is made up) which is, that she would be introduced to Madame de Stael, but became so nervous, that she had to gracefully decline.\' \n- Gaskell:\n \'We only remember one woman, who, in the half a century that has gone by since her passing, who could measure up to her, when it comes to the finesse and completeness of her work, and that is the late Mrs. Gaskell, whose "Cranford" and "Wives and Daughters" are equal to "Mansfield Park" and "Persuasion".\'\n\nIn part on Mitford:\n- Hanna Moore (mention of her "Search after happiness")\n- Joanne Baillie (Mitford quoted saying Baillie is \'our only contemporary female tragedian\') (de Montfort)\n- Maria Edgeworth (Mitford quoted saying: \n \'I fully share your [William Alford of Plymouth] admiration for miss Edgeworth. She and mrs. Baillie and mrs. Opie, they together form a trio, the likes of which one rarely sees them together in one country at one time. Of the three, I would [...] like best looking like miss Baillie. But mrs. Opie is certainly not the least gifted of the three; and miss Edgeworth has done more good in circles high and low, than anyone on earth since the days of Addison.\'\n \'I can never read a book by miss Edgeworth, without making the remark, that she writes much more with her head than with her heart.\'\n- List of female dramatists to be considered worthy: Aphra Behn, Margaret duchess of Newcastle, Suzanna Centlivre, mrs Cowley, Fanny Burney, Hanna More, Joanna Bailli, Barbarina Lady Daire, Felicia Hemans (Vespers of Palermo) , Mrs. Goa, miss Landong, princess Amalia of Saxony, Fanny Kemble, Mme de Girardin (La joie fait peur), Mme Dudevant.\n- Mme d\'Arblay (mention of her diary, \'boring despite its wit and cleverness\')\n- Mrs. Piozzi (mention)']
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