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Two thousand twenty-five is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the English novelist Jane Austen. England plans to ...
Travel inspired by the written word is experiencing a surge in interest, thanks to thriving communities of book lovers ...
Books have a world of their own, offering a form of escape while also grounding us in reality, isn’t it? Whether it’s diving ...
I suspect you can’t win when you’re a popular commercial television personality who chooses to write a serious book. If your ...
The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an ...
Mr Whitley's book is packed with quotes from ... in the works of Jane Austen and George Eliot as an undergraduate at Oxford. He has since dedicated his life to re-reading and re-examining their ...
Jane Austen’s much-loved copy of The History of ... Anyone who unconsciously quotes its title has been shaped by this book without knowing it. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774), the Anglo-Irish ...
Tamimi’s “Pride and Prejudice” is also a chance to remember what we love about the novel and its characters, but with a twist ...
featuring costumed ‘Georgian players’ reading quotes from Jane’s letters, novels, and poems. This dramatised walk will take place at 3pm on May 31, June 1, 4, 5 and 6. The celebrations will culminate ...
In a discussion hosted by 'New Yorker' writer Alexandra Schwartz at New York’s 92nd Street Y on March 27, authors Jennifer ...
Bonnets at the ready, with 2025 marking two and a half centuries since Jane Austen's birth, does "bad lad" Mr Darcy still do it for Gen Z? From erotic audio books to one-woman comedy shows ...
the women of Jane Austen and my childhood and my family Singapore,” Kwan said. “So many of the women reminded me of the aunts I grew up with … I felt like I was reading about members of my ...