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Tom Lefroy:
I have been told there is much to see upon a walk, but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below. Jane Austen:
Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. There's even a book about Selborne Wood. Tom Lefroy:
Oh. A novel, perhaps? Jane Austen:
Novels? Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?. Tom Lefroy:
I see, we're talking of your reading. Jane Austen:
As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?
I have been told there is much to see upon a walk, but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below. Jane Austen:
Yes, well, others have detected more. It is celebrated. There's even a book about Selborne Wood. Tom Lefroy:
Oh. A novel, perhaps? Jane Austen:
Novels? Being poor, insipid things, read by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?. Tom Lefroy:
I see, we're talking of your reading. Jane Austen:
As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?
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I have been told there is much to see upon a walk
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but all I've detected so far is a general tendency to green above and brown below
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Yes well others have detected more It is celebrated
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There's even a book about Selborne Wood Oh
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A novel perhaps
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Novels
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Being poor insipid things read by mere women even God forbid written by mere women
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I see we're talking of your reading
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As if the writing of women did not display the greatest powers of mind
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knowledge of human nature the liveliest effusions of wit and humour
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and the best chosen language imaginable
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Movie Summary
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Actors
Tom Lefroy
Jane Austen
