] ] PS: Loved the slam: "That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary." Go, Jane!

] It is a good zinger, isn't it? I love it when jane gets all snarky. ;-)

Even better is the fact that Henry Austen, when he was trying to arrange for this to be published, told the publishers who had neglected it that this was written by the (by then celebrated) author of S&S, P&P, Emma and MP--but only after he had bought back the rights to publish it.