If Jane Austen wrote today

What Would a Modern-Day Jane Austen Novel Look Like?

Austen wrote in a time when women were allowed to aspire to nothing but a good marriage. The outcome of the marriage game defined them. If ...

Why Jane Austen Wouldn't Get Published if She Were Writing Today

Jane Austen Tells. She wouldn't get published because she tells, she doesn't show. The “show, don't tell” adage flies around the writing world ...

Why is Jane Austen still read and enjoyed today? - Reddit

You can't really judge Austen by adaptations of her work, so sticking to her actual writing, you've read half of her novels. She wrote three ...

5 Reasons Why Jane Austen's Works Remain Relevant Today

... today. Although she wrote in a different era, her works resonate with readers of all ages and backgrounds. From Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility ...

If Jane Austen came back to life, what would she say about today's ...

Jane Austen didn't portray all of English society, just her portion of it. This was a choice she made because, despite being a comic ...

Novels Inspired by Jane Austen - Art In Fiction

I love Jane Austen. Almost every year, I re-read at least one of her novels. On many a winter evening, I've wandered over to my bookshelf to ...

What if Jane Austen Lived in the 21st Century? - Bustle

Happy Birthday, Jane Austen! That's right folks, 238 years ago, everyone's favorite literary wit was born. She went on to write six novels, ...

Here's Why Jane Austen Is Still Relevant For Women Today

It's this innate way of holding up the mirror to society that makes Austen worth the read even today. The facts that the stories she told ...

How to Misread Jane Austen | The New Yorker

The novelist was a keen observer of her time, Louis Menand writes. Now readers want to make her a mirror of our own.

Pride and Prejudice - Would this be published in today's market ...

Farrah What do you think? If Jane Austen submitted her book for publication today would it make the cut? Could she even get an agent?

10 comforting classics to read after you run out of Jane Austen novels

Oh, Guernsey is a fabulous recommendation for right now! My favorite Austen is Pride and Prejudice which is tied with the Anne of Green Gable series as my ...

If Jane Austen lived today, she'd be a blogger

Dear reader, if Jane Austen lived today, she'd be an avid blogger, she'd be on Facebook, and of course she'd also be tweeting away -- but ...

If Jane Austen wrote today, wouldn't her novels be considered ...

Jane Austen would be considered one of the finest authors of her generation, no matter the generation she was born into. The statement that, on the surface, ...

Stanford literary scholars reflect on Jane Austen's legacy

Originally published anonymously, the works gained recognition among readers and scholars in the 20th century. Now, most literary academics can' ...

A Home of Her Own - How Jane Austen Found the Space to Write

Within a year of living in Chawton she had revised Sense and Sensibility and found a new publisher. In the next seven years she revised Pride ...

If Jane Austen were alive today. . .: karen_w_newton — LiveJournal

I love Jane Austen's work, and I'm not alone. Recently she has become an industry . There are mash-ups, like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ...

Why is Jane Austen immortal? | From Pemberley to Milton

Hello everyone, Today is a very special day for all of us, as 200 years ago Jane Austen left our world. But I believe she remains pretty ...

Jane Austen's Fame and Fortune, Now and Then

By Caroline Kerr Taylor It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen continues to grow in popularity as an author even as her ...

'Jane Austen: Then and Now' - Princeton University

2017 marks the bicentennial of Jane Austen's death, and a course at Princeton is commemorating the author's life and legacy today.

Living Through Turbulent Times with Jane Austen

Places I had written about in earlier books were now ... Regardless of whether Austen read Equiano, his book circulated widely after 1789.