Jane Austen at 250: Shashi Deshpande on the ‘perfect artist’ who reinvented the novel
Two thousand twenty-five is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the English novelist Jane Austen. England plans to ...
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I’ve seen every Jane Austen adaptation – these are the nine worth watching
Luckily this terrific film, directed by Patricia Rozema, tackles the problem head-on, by making Fanny (Frances O’Connor, superb) more like Jane Austen herself. It also takes on the secret issue of ...
Mansfield Park on the Mainland
This month, NZ Opera is taking Jonathan Dove's adaptation of Austen's masterpiece, Mansfield Park, to the South Island. It ...
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Jane Austen wrote six novels. Here's how we rank them
As Jane Austen turns 250, a definitive ranking of her novels and why the true power of Austen is still to be found in her written work ...
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Helen Fielding, Kevin Kwan and Jennifer Egan Explain Why Jane Austen's Books Are So Enduring: 'She's My Hero'
He began "binging” her novels, starting with 1811’s Sense and Sensibility and 1814’s Mansfield Park. “I felt this connection ...
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Celebrating Jane Austen at 250
Read Jane Austen’s novels and you’ll learn about a world where marriage was important to a woman’s social standing — and ...
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Wilkes celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th birthday
The Wilkes University English Department held a ball in honor of novelist Jane Austen’s 250th birthday on Thursday night at ...