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Pat Barker: ‘When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it’

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

‘Thornback’ keeps trending – here’s why this old-fashioned term is derogatory to young, single women

I am 27 years old; I have no money and no prospects. I am already a burden for my parents, and I am frightened. So don’t judge me, Lizzie.

The Conversation

‘Like a gig with your favourite 90s artists’: KT Tunstall composes Clueless musical

Adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s classic 1995 comedy will open in London in February with a new score by the Scottish musician inspired by its soundtrack

The Guardian - UK

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Shoplifting is now at record levels. Here’s how it went from a crime punishable by death to police ‘turning a blind eye’

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom…

The Conversation

Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy believes ‘extensive reading’ makes an accomplished woman. What else does reading mean in her work?

What does it mean to be a reader in Jane Austen’s novels? And what does it mean to read them? Susan Allen Ford, longtime editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journals, confesses to perhaps 25 years of fascination with her subject.

The Conversation

Best Regency romance novels for your collection

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Evening Standard

3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views

More than two centuries after Jane Austen died in 1817, many of the English novelist’s fans want to know her takes on her day’s big issues, including race, colonialism and slavery.

The Conversation

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A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel audiobook review – preoccupations of a vibrant mind

Actor Lydia Leonard and novelist Anne Enright are among the narrators of the Wolf Hall author’s engaging essays on Madonna, Jane Austen and Princess Diana

The Guardian - UK

Joanna Murray-Smith’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya reminds us Chekhov’s play is both timeless and timely

Virginia Woolf always maintained that, of all of the great writers, the British novelist Jane Austen “is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.

The Conversation

Sense and Sensibility review – lack of decorum drains tension from Austen adaptation

A shapeless staging and knockabout jokes detract from the emotional heft of this tale of thwarted love

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Grace: ‘Being killed off in Lost is still the worst heartbreak of my career’

The ‘Lost’ star – who was famously kidnapped in the Liam Neeson thriller ‘Taken’ – speaks to Adam White about anglophilia, playing damsels in distress, and the time she convinced Christopher Nolan she was British

The Independent UK

The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Pride and Prejudice to Persuasion

Some of the best costume dramas on the big and small screen were adapted from an Austen classic, including the BBC’s 1995 TV series ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which catapulted Colin Firth to fame. Charlotte Cripps picks the biggest successes

The Independent UK

Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much

The Guardian - UK

Jane Austen fans despair at student digs plan for hotel where she danced

Devotees of author from Britain and the US lobby Southampton council to reject proposals for historic Dolphin building

The Guardian - UK

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Salon

Could The Beatles become famous today?

"The number of amazing people who could be spectacularly successful, is really, really high," Sunstein says

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Bridgerton season three – all the usual froth, but a more mature edge as Regency fears of spinsterhood explored

Note this piece contains spoilers for seasons two and three of Bridgerton

Salon

"College was called 'Babylon'"

In her memoir "Rift," author Cait West describes Christian radicalism that is scarily powerful in the modern GOP

The Guardian - UK

Jane Austen museum appeals to public for help deciphering brother’s memoir

Curators launch campaign after acquiring 78-page document that could hold new information about author

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‘You can’t always win in this industry’: Theo James on fame, Guy Ritchie and the actor’s hustle

The actor found fame as the cocky finance bro in The White Lotus. Now, as he stars in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, he talks to Tim Lewis about being ‘irritatingly competitive’, giving up music for acting – and whether James Bond really is on the horizon...

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Can the monarchy survive the Kate photo fiasco? It probably can

Could this national madness have been Meghan’s revenge? Plus, questions about chafing and a vet bills shock

The Guardian - UK

‘Bring back Thatcher’: voters in ‘blue wall’ voice scepticism before budget

Trip through M3 corridor’s traditionally Conservative seats finds distrust of politicians and discontent over range of issues

The Guardian - UK

Colin Firth’s wet shirt from Pride and Prejudice sells for £20,000

Clothing worn by actor in 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen novel goes for double expected amount at auction

The Guardian - UK

Winchester plan for £100,000 Jane Austen statue triggers ‘Disneyfication’ fears

People at public meeting raise concerns that sculpture in cathedral grounds will attract tourists taking selfies

The Guardian - UK

Spring flowers: 10 of the best places in the UK to see them bloom

Witch hazel and snowdrops, hellebores and daffodils – with the country set to burst into bloom, we find the best of the season’s first offerings