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Academic: Jane Austen Had a Lot of Help From Editor

LONDON (Oct. 24) - She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive...

Jane Austen's The Dugout

As a blogger with no real job, I spend most of my day loading and refreshing FanHouse, looking for something to write about. Imagine my shock and dismay yesterday upon seeing Tom Fornelli's report that Jane Austen invented the game of baseball.Frankly, this changes everything. From now on I'm going to start writing Dugouts...

Apparently Jane Austen Invented Baseball

Baseball has long been known as America's Pastime, as it was supposedly first invented by Civil War general Abner Doubleday back in 1839. This has long been the accepted truth about baseball's creation, but in recent years it's starting to look more and more likely that Doubleday had nothing to do with inventing the...

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I'm Not Needy, But My Relationship Is

Recently I was faced with a basic quandary about myself as a person.

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Elizabeth Kantor: HBO's "Girls" -- Is it Really Less Humiliating Now Than it Was in the '50s?

The current meme about the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey is that women have so much control in our real lives that we can afford to (because of the triumph of feminism ) or have to (because all that equality is an exhausting burden) resort to masochism in our fantasy lives.

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How Jane Austen Can Save Your Love Life

It takes me about three minutes of cocktail party chat to sell The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After as the perfect graduation present to any father of a young woman in her teens or early twenties.

Jane Austen News From the Web

05/29/12 Cisco founder pens sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice' Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA Sandy Lerner and her husband founded Cisco Systems in 1984, creating one of the first businesses connecting networks of computers to other networks of computers.
05/29/12 I'm Not Needy, But My Relationship Is Source: The Huffington Post Recently I was faced with a basic quandary about myself as a person.
05/29/12 The Jane Austen Marriage Manual: Mr. Right or Mr.... Source: Globe and Mail It's always a delight to stumble upon a chick-lit novel that is smart, well-crafted and witty.
05/29/12 Jane Austen Comes Alive at the Edison Library Source: Courier News - Bridgewater NJ Jane Austens characters are the reflection of some very interesting times.
05/27/12 Books: New and noteworthy for the week of May 27 Source: USA Today We scope out the hottest books on sale the week of May 27. 1.

Background on Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

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