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Jane Austen, with a mysterious twist
Did you ever have the pleasure of reading Jane Austen’s novels? Although I was an English major in college, journalism courses accounted for many of my English hours. Otherwise, I took the usual Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, etc., and then studied as much American literature as I could. It was a few years later, when I…
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The Bennets – viewed from below
Jane Austen, who published her novels anonymously, cannot in her wildest dreams have imagined the life her works would have long after she was gone. There have been sequels, spoofs, spinoffs and retellings, movies, a mystery series starring Jane as the sleuth, the popular novel and movie The Jane Austen Book Club… And now, 200…