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jefrye t1_j6c5s4r wrote

Reply to comment by ri-mackin in Why does Northanger Abbey end in such a hurry? by Recent-Bird

It wasn't. I don't think any of Austen's novels were serialized.

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ri-mackin t1_j6cw3hs wrote

Why not?

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emi-wankenobi t1_j6diakf wrote

Based on what I’ve read, most novels weren’t back then. Serialization of novels probably was a thing, but as far as I can tell it became the really popular thing to do in England in the mid 1800s, after Dickens published his Pickwick Paper stories that way. Austen’s contemporaries weren’t serializing their works either, they were publishing them as full novels.

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ri-mackin t1_j6dwtm6 wrote

I've got a bone to pick with a certain mouthy English major!

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