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
A Stroke of Good Fortune A Stroke of Good Fortune "A Stroke of Good Fortune" is a short story by the American author Flannery O'Connor. It is one of the ten stories included in her short story collection "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", published in 1955. The story involves a woman who discovers to her disappointment and disbelief that she is pregnant. The story begins as Ruby Hill, a woman who has lately been suffering from minor illness, enters the door of her apartment building after shopping at the grocery store. Ruby begins to work her way up the stairs to her apartment,