Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray

“It is very unfair to judge of anybody’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be’” (E 1:18).”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies

“So why should I warn you that I’m putting Twain and Austen in the same paragraph? Twain was notorious for making disparaging remarks about Jane Austen. For example”
― Joan Elizabeth Klingel Ray, Jane Austen For Dummies