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You have to understand the education level of my great lady --Lady Jane Austen was not 'oxford' material.So by that standard alone, this arguement is not fair. Secondly, Her level education is no greator than 7th grade, yet she managed to write so masterfully and beautifully than any harvard graduated soul. Now, granted the article states an important fact-- that her editors basically 'prettied up' her drafts or manuscripts to appease our modern aesthetic sensibilities. Thats totally understandable. In those days--more than 200 years ago--paper was expensive and difficult to come across. Jane used to write her sister often--despite her destituteness-- she used inventive ways to write alot in a small piece of paper. That meant--no care for punctuation, no paragraphs---and writing on the sides of the paper. Yes, the editors should be recognized for making Jane Austen Genius product pretty and finished up,point well taken; but u have to understand this also serves them more for economic and commercial purposes. Unltimately,---my lady provided the mojo Gustaff which is ranked a genius.Whatever the lack of punctuation and the lack of spellings---She wrote better than her contemporaries. You should judge her according to the writers in her times, and also take account to her level of education, and at the same time weight it with what she has achieved given the incredibly impossible odds. 
