Home Gallery Letter by Jane Austen to Anna Austen on Walter Scott (28 September 1814)
One estimate is that only 160 out of 3,000 letters written by the novelist Jane Austen survive. Unsurprisingly, letters feature regularly in her fiction. In this letter to her niece she writes: ‘Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. — I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it — but fear I must.’
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