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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
Marilyn Butler

Born: February 11, 1937
Died: March 11, 2014 (aged 77)
Bio: Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler was a British literary critic. She was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge from 1986 to 1993, and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1993 to 2004.
Known for:
- Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975)
- Jane Austen (2007)
- Maria Edgeworth (1972)