In the first episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, a new podcast marking 250 years since the author’s birth, we speak to Austen experts about her relationship with gossip.
- Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University
Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her ultimate novel, but the winner is down to you.
Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
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