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We'll never know if Nokes is right--in the end, the record on Austen is just too scanty to go beyond speculation.
Nokes, anachronistically but suggestively applying 20 th -century standards of family unity, argues that Jane was traumatized by a separation from two of her six brothers.
This is a cheap, ludicrous claim, and I'm happy to say that both Nokes and Tomalin, for all their determination to explore the hidden Austen, basically ignore it.
Both names (along with the no-longer-common "John-a-'nokes" and "John-a-'stiles") derive from legal custom dating back almost to medieval times, in cases where suit needed, for arcane reasons, to be filed against a legally fictitious person.
Nokes points out that our source for her fainting is unreliable--70 years later, a niece who wasn't alive at the time thought she remembered hearing something to that effect.
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