Rejecting Jane article chronicles the fact that all but one of the publishers and agents failed to recognise her works, including Penguin Books and J. K. Rowling's publisher Bloomsbury, with the vast majority rejecting out of hand this apparent attempt by one of the world’s greatest known authors to gain a publishing deal. This despite the fact that one of the most famous opening lines in English literature, "Pride and Prejudice"’s "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" was left intact. On its publication the article
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