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    Launchpad: Pride & Prejudice

    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen's treatment of social class in the early nineteenth century

    One of the central themes in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the role of class in early nineteenth-century England. Austen is interested in how social class shapes individual experience as well as the interactions among people of different classes.

    Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published

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    February 18, 1885
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    Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context
    Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor
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    Launchpad: Twain and American Humor
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    Mark Twain and His Times

    Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author, born

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    February 7, 1867
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    Edith Wharton, American novelist, short story writer, and designer, is born

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    January 24, 1862
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    Edith Wharton: War Correspondent
    Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
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    Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet & novelist, dies

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    Russian-born science fiction writer Isaac Asimov born

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    January 2, 1920
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    Science Net Links: Prophets of Science Fiction: Issac Asimov

    F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, dies

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    December 21, 1940
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    English novelist Jane Austen born

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    Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": The Novel as Historical Source

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