![]() ![]() Philadelphia, Patricians and Philistines, 1. About four years ago, the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute released a collection of her essays titled, American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier, with an introductory essay by John Lukacs taken from his 1. Today, the statement could well be considered her literary epitaph. At the time, Repplier was one of the better- known American writers, and it was Howell she was referring to as unknown. ![]() Century English bureaucrat and man of letters. Gems from the Internet Archive Archives“If the unresponsive gods, so often invoked, so seldom complaisant, would grant me one sweet boon, I should ask of them that I might join that little band of authors, who, unknown to the wide careless world, remain from generation to generation the friends of a few fortunate readers.” This was Agnes Repplier’s introduction to Epistolae Ho- Elianae, a two- volume collection of the familiar letters of James Howell a 1. ![]()
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