Interesting article in which an academic has claimed that Jane Austen's elegant writing style may have been thanks to the work of her editor!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11610489
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Jane Austen
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About Jane having a regional accent. At first glance that seems surprising, because I always think of her characters as speaking in RP. But that's really only because the actors playing them do - RP developed later in the nineteenth century. I think some at least of Austen's characters would have had regional accents.
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