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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 Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive...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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Amy Elizabeth Smith: Who Would Jane Austen Vote For?

"What Would Jane Do?" is a go-to question among Austen fans.

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06/02/12 Talk on Jane Austen's wardrobe to be delivered at the... Source: The Huddersfield Daily Examiner - Huddersfield - West Yorkshire - UK A TALK will be held by a costume historian on the intricacies of writer Jane Austen's wardrobe.
06/01/12 Academic All-Stars: Leah Lavigne Source: Burlington Free Press - Burlington VT Performing on the Flynn Mainstage four times during high school; inducted into the National Honor Society as a sophomore; Phi Beta Kappa Award recipient; singing at Gov. Shumlins inauguration with the Vermont Youth Orchestra Chorus; getting accepted to my No. 1 choice for college, Middlebury College.
05/31/12 Amy Elizabeth Smith: Who Would Jane Austen Vote For? Source: The Huffington Post - Culture "What Would Jane Do?" is a go-to question among Austen fans.
05/30/12 Costumes and goodies on hand at Jane Austen tea Source: Saanich News - Victoria - BC - Canada Take time for tea with other fans of all things Jane Austen later this month.
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.

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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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