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Bags for life

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Bags for life
‘I think they’re called “bags for life” because they stay with us for ever.’

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that any article about Jane Austen must begin with a mangled, platitudinous variation on her most famous line. Irritating though this is, it’s rather a good metaphor for the state of the wider treatment of Austen – and her near contemporaries – by popular culture. When it comes to

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