Who was Jane Austen’s ‘model reader’? And what did she read? A witty new book by a leading Austen expert explores this and more.
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A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
Edwina Preston tells why her favourite literary heroine is Seven Little Australians’ Judy Woolcot and her ‘bone-true authenticity of self’ – beating fellow tomboys Jo March and Anne Shirley.
Music is featured in most of Jane Austen’s novels and recent research is teaching us more about her personal love of music. What can it tell us about the world of Jane Austen?
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
A Mr Darcy Halloween costume anyone? How the brooding hero of Pride and Prejudice has been reinvented as a vampire.
Though she created her stories more than 200 years ago, Jane Austen’s novels were forerunners of feminism.
How did jogging go from a Victorian gentleman’s pastime to the most popular form of exercise on the planet?
England’s green and pleasant land will be beset by a plague of the living dead, corpses will dig their way out of graves … Jane Austen horror is now a distinctive subgenre of Austen adaptations.
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Adjunct Associate in English, Flinders University
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Kent
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in English Literature, Flinders University
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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Literary Heritage, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
