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TIL Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, admitted to being "prejudice" against women. He wrote to Edmund Wilson: "I dislike Jane Austen, and am prejudiced, in fact against all women writers. They are in another class." However, he changed his mind after reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

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