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Jane Austen

Jane Austen

  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
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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