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Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing

without hate, without bitterness, without fear,

without protest, without preaching.

That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought...

and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen,

they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments;

and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare,

and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word she wrote,

and so does Shakespeare.

Virginia Woolf

Keith Snell, Pianist