Jane Austen's Work
Catherine Morland: A Failed Gothic Novel Heroine?
Lucie Rivet offers her thoughts on Northanger Abbey's heroine.
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Jane Austen: Why do Millennials Love her so Much?
Why does Austen have such enduring popularity with young people?
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Don't Insult Your Children, Give Them Jane Austen
by Allison Burr My kids saw that scoundrel Willoughby at Chic-Fil-A last night. Or so they thought. We had just finished our chicken sandwiches and waffle fries and were headed off to Andrew Pe...
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Jane Austen: Family Therapist?
Patrice Sarath discusses the ins and outs of Austen's great family dynamics
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Finding Happiness, Austen Style, with Emma, our favourite matchmaker
Feeling bummed out? Let Emma cheer you up!
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Jane Austen For Children: Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie
by Alice Chandler How did I come to write Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie: A Jane Austen Mystery for Children? Jane Austen has been part of my life for almost all of my life, ever sinc...
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A Dangerous Intimacy: Mansfield Park and Playing at Love
by Lona Manning A group of young people, passing the rainy weeks of autumn together in “a dull country house,” decide to entertain themselves by staging a play. So what’s so wrong about that, as ...
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Yours Sincerely: Jane Austen's Heroes
Yours Sincerely: Jane Austen's Heroes Original content by Rhian Fender “There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and th...
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Are Jane Austen's Heroines Ideal Women?
By Jenni Waugh I recently replied to an email enquiry from a student who was looking for an opinion on the question "To what extent does Jane Austen present her heroines as ideal women within their...
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The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon
The Jane Austen Peacock: How a bird became an icon
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Annotating Jane Austen: What Would Elinor Do?
Margaret C. Sullivan takes an in depth look at Sense and Sensibility
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