I had never read anything by the famous English author. But why would that even matter? Jane Austen wrote all six of her novels just over 200 years ago in a time that seems distant and abstract to us ...

p. 35. Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786 1945 is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen s novels. It discusses Austen s own ideas about books and readers, the uses she makes of her reading, and ...

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Thanks to her sharp wit and strong female characters, Jane Austen’s literature is still utterly relevant. Author Claire Harman ... topical or historical themes in order to be relevant: there ...

Local councillors met with members of the Jane Austen Regency Week Committee to look around the garden A Regency-style garden in memory of the author Jane Austen has opened. The garden ...

"She was a great fan of Jane Austen but these were the only rare books she ever bought and they would be brought out every now and then, treated carefully by the family, and then put back in the ...

My mom got really sick and she was the person who got me into Jane Austen, so I actually kind of wrote that book as a way to cheer her up. I sort of stumbled into horror, which is more what I’m ...