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One reviewer complained in 1828, in an essay in the Atlas titled “Novels: Plagiarisms From Miss Austen,” that fiction of the day was rife with unacknowledged pilfering from her “admirable mine for prudent plagiarism.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

Plagiarisms have been discovered in every natural description and every moral sentiment.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

Plagiarisms from modern authors may in some cases have been introduced by Chatterton but in others they are the commonplaces of poetry.

From The Rowley Poems by Chatterton, Thomas