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The 1990s narrative of William as hottie lives still, because it’s too powerful a story for the media and the…
4/21/21 8:30PM
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In a move that British tabloids The Express and the Daily Mail have labeled “Black Lives Matter-inspired” and “woke…
9/04/20 9:02AM
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One of my fondest memories is having tea with a friend at the Jane Austen Center in Bath, under a portrait of Colin…
3/20/20 1:00PM
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that every piece about Jane Austen must begin this way. It’s also true that…
8/04/19 3:39PM
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Although she only lived to 42, Jane Austen wrote some of the most widely read and adapted novels of all-time.…
2/27/19 1:00PM
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Elizabeth Holmes will lie about almost anything: her dog, what her speaking voice sounds like, the future of her…
1/12/19 5:17PM
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Am I the only one who thought Jane Austen’s family was at least Pride and Prejudice-level poor?
10/30/18 1:30PM
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Emily Alford
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Like many American girls, I was still in elementary school the first time I pilfered a copy of Flowers in the Attic…
8/29/18 12:54PM
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A first edition of Pride and Prejudice is coming up for auction and estimated to go for as much as $23,390. OK, but…
7/24/18 12:21PM
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A researcher has discovered what may be the earliest purchase of a Jane Austen novel. The customer was the man who…
7/10/18 12:35PM
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Sanditon, the fragment of a novel Jane Austen was working on when she died, is being adapted into a splashy ITV…
3/23/18 12:55PM
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“Some are born Janeites, some achieve Janeism, and some have Janeism thrust upon them,” Ted Scheinman writes in his…
9/08/17 11:20AM
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Here is some truly excellent news for some very specific people: Curtis Sittenfeld’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation E…
8/07/17 4:20PM
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The producers of Poldark are taking a shot at an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, drawing out the tale’s “darker…
7/18/17 9:40AM
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The citizens of Basingstoke unveiled their bronze interpretation of the author on Tuesday to mark the 200th…
5/16/17 2:45PM
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Helena Kelly
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Jane Austen’s public image has undergone many a revamp since her death two centuries ago this July. Often, however,…
4/04/17 10:20AM
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Kate Fustich
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The most poignant image of a woman on TV in recent memory is none other than Reese Witherspoon driving along the…
4/02/17 11:00PM
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On Sunday, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett will be honored…
3/13/17 5:30PM
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Everyone gather round and let’s play that perennial favorite parlor game, What Killed This Famous Dead Person?…