JANE AUSTEN

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People in period costume pose with on the Bank of England's new ten pound notes, featuring author Jane Austen, during its launch at Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, southern England, on July 18, 2017. Two hundred years after Jane Austen's death, Britain is celebrating one of its best-loved authors, who combined romance with biting social commentary that still speaks to fans around the world. Austen is buried in the cathedral in Winchester, where she died. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Chris J Ratcliffe (Photo credit should read CHRIS J RATCLIFFE/AFP/Getty Images)
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ENTERTAINMENT
New Jane Austen Pound Note Features Egregiously Misused Quote
By Claire Fallon
In its true context, the line reads quite differently.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Becoming Jane: How Austen Transformed Into A Chick Lit Icon
By Claire Fallon
200 years after her untimely death, this is what we think of when we think of Jane Austen.
Portrait of a young Jane Austen (1775-1817), an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Dated 1790. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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ENTERTAINMENT
Jane Austen Loved Guilty Pleasure Reads, Just Like We Do
By Claire Fallon
More evidence that if she'd lived today, she'd be a star "Bachelor" live-tweeter.
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QUEER VOICES
A Modern Gay Take On 'Pride And Prejudice' Is Heading Your Way
By Curtis M. Wong
"Before The Fall" recasts Jane Austen's classic with two Virginian men.
Jane Austen - portrait of the English novelist as a young woman, from the painting by Johann Zoffany. 16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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ARTS & CULTURE
Jane Austen Apparently Made Up Two Fake Marriages, For The Lulz
By Claire Fallon
Jane, you mischievous scamp!
UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist remembered for her six great novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Engraving. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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ARTS & CULTURE
Jane Austen Has Become An Alt-Right Icon, Somehow
By Claire Fallon
She's the Pepe of Regency-era fiction.
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ARTS & CULTURE
In Praise Of Women Who’ve Explored — And Conquered — On Foot
By Maddie Crum
In "Flâneuse," Lauren Elkin writes about the obstacles women have encountered while walking in cities.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Your Favorite Book Characters Are As Real As You Feel They Are
By Claire Fallon
According to a new study, fictional characters can influence your life in very real ways.
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ARTS & CULTURE
Behold The First 'Historically Accurate' Portrait Of Mr. Darcy
By Maddie Crum
The fictional dreamboat probably had a “long nose” and “pointy chin.”
TRAVEL
Jane Austen: She Wrote Novels And Left Behind Mysteries
By Michael Levin, Contributor
New York Times best selling author Michael Levin writes freque...
We do know that she wrote drafts of three of her most successful novels--Pride And Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and
ENTERTAINMENT
WATCH: Interview with Kate Beckinsale for "Love & Friendship"
By Zorianna Kit, Contributor
Journalist, entertainment reporter, travel writer and media di...
This week the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced their nominees for the 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards. The
BOOKS
Famous Things Four Famous Authors Never Said
By Lev Raphael, Contributor
Author, Reviewer, Blogger
Actually, she didn't. A lot of people swear by Goodreads. I swear at it. Often. It's a treasure trove of unsourced quotations
ENTERTAINMENT
Rolling With Laughter At Bedlam's 'Sense and Sensibility'
By Regina Weinreich, Contributor
Author, 'Kerouac's Spontaneous Poetics'
Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility provides the source for the hilarious, entertainment, Sense and Sensibility, in
BOOKS
Reading Bobby, Arlene and Jane
By Sara Davidson, Contributor
Author of Loose Change and JOAN: Forty Years of Life, Loss, an...
And please leave a comment ― let me know how you experience it. If you've never read it, or haven't since college, I urge
CULTURE & ARTS
Love And Friendship
By Francis Levy, Contributor
Writer
There has been much talk about the manipulativeness and seductiveness of the Jane Austen character, Lady Susan, who Kate
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COMEDY
Bill Maher Says 'Pride And Prejudice' Won Out In UK's Brexit Vote
By Lee Moran
He used Jane Austen to break down the referendum result.
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