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 and Ruby's neighbor, Laverne Watts, was an early rendition of "Wisebloods" Leora Watts. The story was first published as "The Woman on the Stairs" in the August 1949 issue of "Tomorrow", and was later published as "A Stroke of Good Fortune" in the spring 1953 issue of "Shenandoah". By 1955 O'Connor had revised it so as to include it in the short story collection "A Good Man is Hard to Find". John McDermott notes that "A Stroke of Good Fortune" has been "dismissed by most critics as one of the least effective of Flannery O'Connor's short stories." O'Connor herself found