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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

  1. Jonny Lee Miller takes on Frankenstein co-star in US Sherlock Holmes update
    Guardian Unlimited logo Guardian Unlimited 1 hour ago
    Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in Frankenstein

    Miller was last seen on US TV in eight episodes of serial killer drama Dexter as a motivational speaker called Jordan Chase in 2010. He has also starred in ABC's primetime soap Eli Stone and played Mr Knightley in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma in...

  2. Joseph Sternberg: Reading Austen in Tokyo
    Wall Street Journal logo Wall Street Journal 1 hour ago

    The government would have to step in to pay compensation directly, in a form of socialism a bit too honest for Tokyo's liking.Thus are our protagonists not-quite-so-secretly pining for each other, and eventually will admit their love. They're likely to...

  3. AP Photo logo AP Photo 9 months ago
    In this book cover image released by Penguin, "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter," by William Deresiewcz, is shown.

    In this book cover image released by Penguin, "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter," by William Deresiewcz, is shown. View Photo »

  4. I am considerably better now and recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour.
    – Jane Austen SOURCE: The Moderate Voice 2 months ago
  5. Joseph Sternberg: Reading Austen in Tokyo
    Wall Street Journal logo Wall Street Journal 4 hours ago

    Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com An...

  6. Why we're hooked on 'Downton Abbey'
    KansasCity.com logo KansasCity.com 5 hours ago

    And for those who really can't wait for Sunday's finale, the entire season is available on DVD already. -Because Jane Austen gave us only six novels. Forget Tony Bennett: Austen, whose pop-culture renaissance has been going strong since at least the...

  7. Rising star Molly Ranson gets bloody in 'Carrie'
    Buffalo News 7 hours ago

    Ranson already has two big Broadway credits to her name - "Jerusalem" opposite Mark Rylance and "August: Osage County" - and two high-profile turns off-Broadway in "The Burnt Part Boys" at Playwrights Horizons and the musical "Jane Austen's Pride and...

  8. Jane Austen could, James Ellroy can. I love the hardboiled economy of dialogue-heavy fiction, as long as it isn’t forced. I often draft my dialogue first, and then fill in the rest afterwards. The rest takes longer.
    SOURCE: Manchester Evening News 2 months ago
  9. Jane Austen's Biography
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 37 months ago
  10. OLLI at Auburn co-sponsoring Leahy Lecture Series
    Oanow logo Oanow 8 hours ago
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    Auburn University Department of Music is co-sponsor for the event. Baird’s performance and lecture on is based on her latest research project, the Jane Austen Songbook, which “weaves pertinent literary passages around a series of arias and late 18 th...

  11. Barrett Keene Is Walking 3,475 Miles for World's Orphans
    The Lakeland Ledger logo The Lakeland Ledger 17 hours ago

    He said he has experienced some shin splints and one blister so far but otherwise feels fine.Keene listens to audio books, recorded sermons and music through ear buds as he walks. He was listening to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" on Tuesday, with...

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About Jane Austen

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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. Full Article

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  1. I am considerably better now and recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough, black and white and every wrong colour.
    – Jane Austen SOURCE: The Moderate Voice 2 months ago
  2. Jane Austen could, James Ellroy can. I love the hardboiled economy of dialogue-heavy fiction, as long as it isn’t forced. I often draft my dialogue first, and then fill in the rest afterwards. The rest takes longer.
    SOURCE: Manchester Evening News 2 months ago
  3. Now that the Jane Austen vogue may be fading, Dickens, with this bicentenary happily arriving, is the obvious replacement, the gold medallist for the London Olympic year. Very suitable: Dickens was the man who invented London in literature.
    SOURCE: ArtsJournal 2 months ago
  4. I couldn't give a damn about another Jane Austen, I just couldn't care less. It's just not true - and inaccurate.
    SOURCE: Belfast Telegraph 2 months ago
  5. It’s difficult when you are not in the mainstream ... We are culturally and politically a lap dog of America. We will swallow everything from America. If we’re not careful in 20 years’ time we’ll have no culture at all. The language is despised. But we need to be protected, not ossified. It’s stultifyin...
    SOURCE: Irish Times 2 months ago
  6. Don’t defend yourself. If you’re defending yourself, you’re not listening. I do know who your narrator is. She’s an overeducated, completely inexperienced, sexually inadequate girl who has rich parents who give her everything and who has nothing to say, so she sits around and thinks about Jane Austen al...
    SOURCE: New York Magazine 2 months ago
  7. The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England
    SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch 2 months ago
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