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Jane Austen

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Things We Saw Today: A New Poster for Pacific Rim

by Susana Polo | 5:00 pm, April 25th, 2013

Pacific Rim, I honestly cannot tell if that tagline is the worst thing or the best thing. (Think McFly Think)

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The Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Movie Has Risen From the Dead

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:55 pm, March 3rd, 2013

The movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hasn’t exactly had an easy time of it. It’s lost directors and stars aplenty. For a while it seemed like it might just… stay dead.

But alas. ‘Twas not to be.

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Writer Creates Jane Austen Spellcheck List To Get Period Language Correct For Novel

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:17 pm, January 18th, 2013

Have you ever been reading a story, supposedly set in a past time period, and spotted words you just know don’t belong? Hugo-award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal has, and she’s determined to not let it happen in her books. So she did something ingenius. She compiled a huge list of words from the collected works of Jane Austen and hopes to apply them to her spellcheck dictionary in order to weed out inappropriate usage in her novels. She just needs a little help. 

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Jane Austen Bandaids

by Susana Polo | 11:30 am, November 5th, 2012

Okay, I know, I know, they’re bandages and BandAid is a brand suffering from extreme proprietary eponymism, but guys. There’s a prize inside.

And that prize is a temporary tattoo. More bandaids behind the jump:

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Neuroscience and Jane Austen: Immersion in a Good Book Has a Big Effect on Brains

by Susana Polo | 11:44 am, October 9th, 2012

English professor Natalie Phillips has more than enough time during her day to observe folks who aren’t particularly engaged in what’s going on around them. As an English minor, I can speak from my own experience and observations in many English courses. As an English professor, Phillips is intimately familiar with the ability of a good book to make one immune from many distractions, ironically for the works of Jane Austen, which she says feature distractibility a major theme, particularly in Pride and Prejudice. She began to wonder if there might be some unexpected science behind the character arc of the novel’s heroine… and decided to team up with some neuroscience professors to find out, with interesting initial results!

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For A More Civilized Age

Is This History’s Only Look at Jane Austen as a Young Girl?

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 4:14 pm, June 14th, 2012

While the legacy of Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen is fairly prolific, her image is not — few professionally painted likenesses of her exist. However, thanks to digital photo analysis, another image of her may have surfaced from obscurity.

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What If Pride and Prejudice Was a Autobiographical Webseries? Introducing: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

by Susana Polo | 9:47 am, April 20th, 2012

At the opening of her first video, this 24 year old grad student named Lizzie Bennet explains that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Or at least it is according to the pink t-shirts her mother gave her and her two sisters last year for Christmas. Yes, in true meta inversion, this is a world where Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice finds Bridget Jones’ Diary to be a dirty pleasure. Part one, of four and counting, is above. More below.

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Jane Austen May Have Died of Arsenic Poisoning, But Was It Murder? Most Scandalous!

by Jamie Frevele | 12:28 pm, November 14th, 2011

Could a sentence written by Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen have uncovered the real cause of her premature death? Crime novelist Lindsay Ashford certainly thinks so, and she’s posited a new theory that Austen, who died at 41 for reasons that have never been truly determined, may have been poisoned with arsenic. She came to this conclusion after reading Austen’s own writings, including one that was likely written months before her own death, and applying what she already knew about arsenic poisoning … From her novels! From her novels.

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Lost In Austen Trailer Is Literary Vacation

by Jill Pantozzi | 1:15 pm, October 11th, 2011

You’ve probably inserted yourself into a Jane Austen novel once or twice (or a hundred) times in your life but what would you actually do if you literally wound up in one? This trailer for Lost in Austen shows us we’d probably muck everything up.

For those not in the know (like me), Lost in Austen was a 2008 British mini-series. The synopsis is as follows: “Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London with her boyfriend Michael, until she finds she’s swapped places with Austen’s fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet.” Hilarity ensues of course. Written by Guy Andrews it stars Jemima Rooper in the starring role and Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston as Mrs. Bennet! Oh and, in case you were wondering, it’s on Netflix instant watch.

(via io9)

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Jane Austen and Agatha Christie Duke It Out Author Style in This “Street Fighter With Words” Game

by Alanna Bennett | 3:05 pm, July 20th, 2011

Jane Austen: Social commentator. Popularizer of rom-coms. Word Fighter. That’s right: Ms. Austen will be a character in the upcoming iOS/Android game. As the developer said, “When it’s time to throw down, Jane is ready to destroy you.”

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