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Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more clearly.
The perils of romance, embarrassing families, self-knowledge and love – all wrapped up in a good dose of social satire – are a winning formula for great TV.
The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of the abolitionists.
School can turn classic books into a chore. Rereading Eliot or Austen or Shakespeare as we grow older, we can see how we have grown as imaginative, moral beings.
Cassandra’s burning of the letters is considered one of the greatest literary scandals of all time.
An expert in literary classics recommends 5 rich, classic page-turners to read over summer – and explains why they’re still relevant today. She also shares her favourite lines.
A thornback was seen as an unattractive and unloveable woman who had yet to find a man to save her from her predicament. We don’t need to bring the term back
Who was Jane Austen’s ‘model reader’? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
Writers have long rhapsodised about real estate – or the difficulty acquiring it – but contemporary authors are asking awkward questions about the inequities of our property obsession.
Zora Simic has never been married, nor wanted to. She assesses two new books about feminism and marriage – Clementine Ford’s polemic against it and Rachael Lennon’s history of its reformation.
When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.
New rules following a spate of bank failures in 19th century Britain could provide some lessons for today’s regulators.
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
How do you get a reader in 1930s China to understand what a mince pie is?
From sharing books to keeping a lock of your intended’s hair, why not try finding love the Georgian way?
Persuasion is a distinctly romantic modern comedy in tone – but how much does historical accuracy matter?
Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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PhD in English Literature, University of Cumbria
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Reader in Romanticisms, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, University of Birmingham
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Adjunct Associate in English, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling
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Visiting Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University
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Professor of English Literature, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow, English literature, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, English Literature, Queen Mary University of London