Jane Austen

A Companion to Jane Austen

By Stephanie Korney
October 13, 2021
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Jane Austen and probably didn’t even know enough to ask. An extensive, perhaps definitive, collection of essays that reflect contemporary Austen studies. Suitable for serious Austen scholars and fans willing to handle its heft. So much to learn...

Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles Persons Places

Jane Austen Literature Reviews

By Lisa Butts
February 7, 2021
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Notre Dame Professor of Literature Margaret Doody explores the importance of names and locations in some of Jane Austen‘s major works in supplying a rich cultural and historical backdrop for the stories, thus providing vital context for modern readers. Places and names are shown to...

Jane Austen: A Biography

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By Justin Goodman
February 7, 2021
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When the remains of that long-necked lizard, the Brontosaurus, were initially discovered in 1879, it was believed to be of a new genus and species. Thirty years later, this theory was called into question. It was too close to the already known Apatosaurus to be...

10 Things You Might Not Know About Jane Austen

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By Editor
December 21, 2020
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1. Although Jane Austen (1775-1817) never married, she did become engaged once, for only one night. She accepted a proposal from a family friend, Harris Bigg-Wither, during a visit to Manydown Park on December 2, 1802. The next morning, however, she had a change of...

Austen Powers: The Enduring Appeal of the Beloved English Novelist

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By Editor
December 8, 2020
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The word “classic” refers to a work of established value, something that is impervious to the passage of time. This is a fitting way to describe the works of an English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817), whose 245th birthday is on December 16. In some ways,...

Becoming Pemberley: Did Britain’s Largest Mansion Inspire Mr. Darcy’s House?

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By Editor
November 6, 2020
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In Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, the dashing hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, lives comfortably in Pemberley, “a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills.” Austen (1775-1817) never revealed which—if any—of England’s stately homes...

When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Go to Jane Austen

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By Joan Klingel Ray
October 23, 2020
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Jane Austen is a novelist to whom readers frequently turn when the going gets tough. Recently, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels provides her account of how five Austen novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion—and memoirs about...

A Gripping Page-Turner: The Plot Thickens Around Jane Austen

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By Editor
October 9, 2020
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Over 200 years since her death, British novelist Jane Austen (1775-1817) has never lost her mass appeal. Her standing as a pop culture icon is as enduring as her literary legacy, proven by the occasional emergence of various posthumous intrigues, twists, and theories. One such...

Jane Austen’s Moral Universe

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By Colin McGinn
March 8, 2019
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Jane Austen is the most moral of writers, but what is her morality? What values does she espouse and promote? That is not an easy question, given the elusiveness of the authorial mind and the gap between life and art, but I propose to deal...

Becoming Jane (Austen) in the 21st Century: A Matter of Pride and Some Prejudice

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By Editor
October 22, 2018
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In her last completed novel, Persuasion, British author Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote: “We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” She couldn’t have known, of course, that in the second decade of the 21st century those words would ring eerily...

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Jane Austen

A Companion to Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles Persons Places

Jane Austen: A Biography

10 Things You Might Not Know About Jane Austen

Austen Powers: The Enduring Appeal of the Beloved English Novelist

Becoming Pemberley: Did Britain’s Largest Mansion Inspire Mr. Darcy’s House?

When the Going Gets Tough, Readers Go to Jane Austen

A Gripping Page-Turner: The Plot Thickens Around Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s Moral Universe

Becoming Jane (Austen) in the 21st Century: A Matter of Pride and Some Prejudice

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