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March 27, 2021

Jane Austen and the Master Spy

Jane and the Master Spy

Sheryl Craig

"ALTHOUGH THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY seems like the title of one of Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen detective novels, the discussion here is about two very real people: Jane Austen (1775-1817), the author—not the fictional character of Barron’s fertile imagination—and Britain’s first master spy, William Wickham (1761-1840), head of the British secret service...."

http://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/vol36no1/craig/