Jane Austen

As those in the know are aware, we here at the Manor are fans of the writings of Jane Austen.
The ever lovely Lady Nib prefers Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice, while this writer favors Mansfield Park.
Recently an academic egghead has come to the conclusion that Miss Austen used an editor for several of her novels. Among the pondering crowd, this "revelation" has been greeted with either huzzahs or raspberries.
We here at the Manor are of the opinion that whether or not Miss Austen used an editor is of no matter. Consider the fact that such writers as Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway used the editorial talents of Maxwell Perkins and have never been slammed for it. The modern scholastic egghead or college professor teaches Hemingway, Faulkner and Wolfe without ever mentioning Perkins.
Why should an editor who corrected the divine Jane's spelling and sentence structure be a scandal?
Given time, this writer has no doubt that a college professor in search of tenure will claim that he has found the editor who corrected Beowulf.
Here's the article regarding JA, for what it's worth:
Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor - Yahoo! News