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Shelley DeWees

Shelley DeWees
Shelley DeWees is the author of Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature, out this week from Harper Perennial. She has a graduate degree in ethnomusicology, several tattoos, and a documented obsession with British literature. Her writing has appeared in Austenprose, Jane Austen’s World, and Jane Austen Today, and after time spent teaching in Korea she recently moved back to Minneapolis with her husband.


The Publisher Who Rejected Jane Austen

Well That Was a Mistake, Wasn't It?
October 26, 2016  By Shelley DeWees
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