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to several major publishers and literary agents, with different titles but only minor changes to the text, such as character names and locations. The resultant article discussed how all but one of the publishers and agents failed to recognise her works, including
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On its publication the article created worldwide media coverage, which saw its author appear on radio and television programmes across the globe, including American news programmes and TV talk shows such as
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opening line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife," being left intact.
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magazine, is a critique of the publishing industry through their inadvertent rejection of
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Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' – a play on Austen's original
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David Lassman

Jane Austen
pen name
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Penguin Books
Bloomsbury
Good Morning America


"Crazy for Jane film premiere at Austen festival in Bath"
Jane Austen's Regency World magazine
"The author and the Austen plot that exposed publishers' pride and prejudice."




"How A Laydee showed that First Impressions really are misleading."
"The author and the Austen plot that exposed publishers' pride and prejudice."


Jane Austen in Modern Day.
"Publishers fail to spot plagiarized Jane Austen"
"No Censure for Stolen Words"
Categories
Cultural depictions of Jane Austen
Journalistic hoaxes

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