Austen Citing Index

Jane Austen Society of Australia

Austen citing:
Amy Tan, The Bonesetter’s Daughter

The main character in this book is Ruth Luyi Young, a Chinese American woman who works as a ghostwriter of self-help books. Someone asks her if she has ever wanted to write a book under her own name ...

She hesitated. Of course she had. She wanted to write a novel in the style of Jane Austen, a book of manners about the upper class, a book that had nothing to do with her own life.

The Bonesetter’s Daughter,
Amy Tan, 2001.

Harriet Veitch

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10 June 2002

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