Entertainment·27th May 2018Northanger Abbey: How to read a Gothic novel Raffaella Sero ‘Oh! I am quite delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it,’ Catherine... Read More
Entertainment·15th October 2017‘Obstinate, headstrong girl!’ Raffaella Sero Or what Jane Austen has been teaching us for over 200 years (and how Clueless we have been about it... Read More
Entertainment·20th January 2012Hadley: writing, reading and flirting Author Tessa Hadley tells us about her work, inspiration and choosing between Austen's heroines. Read More
Entertainment·14th May 2018Jane Austen’s juvenilia: extravagantly absurd and outrageously funny Juliet Garcia Reading juvenilia can often seem part of a contrived, even pathetic, attempt to make some profound statement about how an... Read More
Entertainment·8th February 2013Sassy Jane: a new reputation Darya Shchepanovska The Oxford Student looks at Paula Byrne’s new biography of Jane Austen A canny business-woman who loved sex jokes, despised the... Read More
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