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Masterpiece on PBS is whisking us back into the romantic Regency era world of Jane Austen, only this time, Jane’s sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) is our leading lady. The new Masterpiece show ...
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How younger sons made their way in Jane Austen's England. By Rory Muir. Yale University Press. $59.99. Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency fashion. By Hilary ...
Jane Austen was never married, but it seems she had her chances. At 19, Austen met Thomas Lefroy, an Irish nephew of a family friend. Jane and Tom attended several parties together and she wrote ...
In Gill Hornby’s 2020 novel Miss Austen, the author builds a story around the fact that Jane Austen’s older sister Cassandra burned the letters Jane wrote to a friend, Eliza Fowle. The letters ...
Yet for Janine Barchas, internationally admired Jane Austen scholar and UT English professor, such a task was irresistible. Her lack of familiarity with the current state of the graphic genre ...