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1 day ago · It turns out Jane Austen was a secret radical all along. About a dozen years ago I was marking some university coursework, extended essays on Jane Austen. One candidate, writing about Emma, quoted Austen’s well-known assertion that the eponymous Emma Woodhouse was, “a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”, but they’d failed to ...
3 days ago · From jilted engagements to vampire aristocrats, the Pride and Prejudice author led a fascinating life. Below, we look at 18 things you might not know about Jane Austen. 1. We know relatively little about Jane's life. Little is known about Jane’s private life compared to many beloved authors from history.
4 days ago · Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen by Rita J. Dashwood, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2022, 273 pp., £64.80 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9781800797420
4 days ago · A little-known Barcelonan painter named Francis Cugat—born Francisco Coradal-Cougat—was commissioned by an unknown individual in Scribner's art department to illustrate the cover while Fitzgerald was composing the novel.
4 days ago · Pride and Prejudice (1813): the vanity ball. Jane Austen, with a keen eye for the truth under moral systems, dissects Georgian society with biting irony. Under her expert fingers, the scalpel of satire reveals a corset-bound England choking with convention. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, enthralled to their own pride, engage in a game of hide ...
4 days ago · Visit Jane Austen's House - the Hampshire cottage at which Jane Austen lived and penned her novels, including the timeless Pride and Prejudice.
4 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
