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Surprisingly, the American author who is quoted most in the OED isnot Mark Twain or Emily Dickinson or Edgar Allan Poe, but rather EdwardH. Knight, a patent lawyer and expert in mechanics who wrote the AmericanMechanical Dictionary and The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics. Knight isthe seventy-fourth-most cited author in the Dictionary, quoted morefrequently than Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Eliot or Ralph Waldo Emerson(who comes in at 116, the next-most quoted American).
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- Dec 2022
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uncle’s heir
How did they know about 3 years they weren't going to have a child? what if they had? What would have happened to Frank??
This echoes Austen's own brother Edward's adoption by wealthy relatives, he took their name when they died and he inheirited.
There may be echoes of Fanny Price too, she's "adopted" by the Bertram's in Mansfield Park.
This indicates that the practise was likely widespread
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