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Rejecting Jane
"Rejecting Jane" is the title of a 2007 article by British author David Lassman.〔("Crazy for Jane film premiere at Austen festival in Bath" ) Retrieved 1 April 2009〕〔'How literary hoax turned into a global story for Austen fans’. ''Western Daily Press''. 12 September 2008〕 The article, which was published in Issue 28 of ''Jane Austen's Regency World'' magazine,〔(''Jane Austen's Regency World'' magazine ). Issue 28 July/August 2007, pgs 6-10〕 is a critique of the publishing industry through their inadvertent rejection of Jane Austen.〔Morris, Stephen. ("The author and the Austen plot that exposed publishers' pride and prejudice." ) ''The Guardian''. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2009.〕〔De Bruxelles, Simon. ("How A Laydee showed that First Impressions really are misleading." ) ''The Times''. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2009.〕
==The idea==
Using the pseudonym 'Alison Laydee' - a play on Austen's original ''nom de plume'' "A Lady"〔 - Lassman sent out the opening chapters of ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''Northanger Abbey'' and ''Persuasion'' 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 chronicles the fact that all but one of the publishers and agents failed to recognise her works, including Penguin Books and J. K. Rowling's publisher Bloomsbury, with the vast majority rejecting out of hand this apparent attempt by one of the world’s greatest known authors to gain a publishing deal. This despite the fact that one of the most famous opening lines in English literature, ''Pride and Prejudice''’s "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" was left intact.〔
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