Rebecca West quote: [On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If ...

[On Jane Austen] She was fully possessed of the idealism which is a necessary ingredient of the great satirist. If she criticized the institutions of earth, it was because she had very definite ideas regarding the institutions of heaven.

~ Rebecca West ~

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