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Jane Austen’s Fame and Fortune, Now and Then

Caroline Kerr Taylor explores Jane Austen's financial and critical success

Madame Tussaud's Waxworks in London

The making of life-size wax figures wearing real clothes grew out of the funeral practices of European royalty. In the Middle Ages it was the habit to carry the corpse, fully dressed, on top of the...

Ludwig van Beethoven, Immortally Beloved Composer

A contemporary of Jane Austen's, he produced many of his pieces during her lifetime.