What drove Jane Austen's sister to become one of literature’s most notorious vandals
A new BBC drama explores one of the most vexing acts of sabotage in literary history: the decision by Jane Austen’s sister ...
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Among Austen’s close contemporaries, Walter Scott – now little read or adapted – was seen as inestimably more worthy, not ...
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In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines
Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran ... A Mr Collinsesque vicar appears (“In my view [Jane] warrants a substantial biography,” he oozes) and unscrupulous sister-in-law Mary would give Sense and ...
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Landed gentry and celebrated officers with a knack for creative pursuits: inside the lives of Jane Austen's seven siblings, as Miss Austen is released
In her biography of Jane Austen, Claire Tomalin notes a mention in one of Jane's letters of ‘talking with my fingers’, which suggests she learnt deaf and dumb sign language, presumably to communicate ...
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The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
Caroline Sanderson is a non-fiction writer, editor and books journalist. Her books include a travel narrative, A Rambling Fancy: in the F ...
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In Miss Austen, Jane is sadly two-dimensional – so unlike her heroines
Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) discovers that Jane’s letters – in all their acerbic, revelatory glory – are about to fall ...