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Woke BBC’s new period drama will tick all PC boxes & have just the right bonnets but here’s why everyone will switch off
A NEW book came out this week. It’s called The Spider Covenant and it’s about a group of sinister businessmen using money the ...
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Miss Austen Novelist Gill Hornby on Austen Sisters and TV Adaptation
I knew Jane Austen’s novels backwards and forwards since I was at school and loved them very much. However, it was 32 years ago when we moved into our current home [the Old Vicarage in Kintbury ...
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‘It is a truth universally acknowledged….’ Jane Austen wrote the most perfect opening line – and we’ve been spoofing it ever since!
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen ... generation. As Austen might say: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a great first line must be in want of endless reinterpretation. (“Drawing a ...