Austen Unleashed: Breaking the Rules of Regency
- Jane Austen, often considered the epitome of Regency-era manners, reveals a different side in her original manuscripts.
- Unfiltered and passionate, Austen's exclamation points, which later faced editing censorship, showcase the author's unrestrained emotions.
- For us, this challenges the perception that the exclamation point doesn't belong in more formal or historical contexts.
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The exclamation point attracts enormous (and undue) amounts of flak for its unabashed claim to presence in the name of emotion which some unkind souls interpret as egotistical attention-seeking.
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