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Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

Jane Gardam

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Jane Gardam
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: July 11
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Coatham
North Yorkshire
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Novel
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