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The doctor turned comedy writer on being inspired by Alan Bennett and comforted by David Sedaris

IN the summer of 2018 at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the young, Scottish actor and playwright Isobel McArthur and her ensemble took to the stage…

Catherine Robertson on novels women want to read (and write)

There’s a subgenre of teen rom-coms that modernize everything from William Shakespeare to Jane Austen. On Hulu, the movie “Rosaline” flips that idea back around, giving modern rom-com tropes and dialogue to the original 16th-century setting of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” I mean, why not?

Copy of novel sold for £375,000

Inscribed first edition of Emma to go on display in UK for first time at Chawton House, Hampshire

What happened next to headstrong Lydia Bennet, the most rock’n’roll of the Pride and Prejudice sisters? This intriguing take by Sarah Page reunites Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn

How do you get a reader in 1930s China to understand what a mince pie is?

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A Chicago native, she arrived in Hollywood in 1935 and over the next 15 years appeared in dozens of films, from the Preston Sturges comedy “Easy Living” to the adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” that starred Olivier and Greer Garson.