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  2. Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the ...

  3. Emma (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Emma and the Werewolves: Jane Austen and Adam Rann, Adam Rann, [96] is a parody of Emma which by its title, its presentation and its history, seeks to give the illusion that the novel had been written jointly by Adam Rann and Jane Austen, that is, a mash-up novel. [citation needed]

  4. Fanny Knight - Wikipedia

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    Fanny was the eldest of Edward and Elizabeth's eleven children. As a child, one of her governesses was Anne Sharp, whom she introduced to Jane Austen, resulting in a long correspondence between the two, even after Sharp left the household. Elizabeth died when Fanny was fifteen years old, and the bond between Jane and Fanny became stronger. [2]

  5. Plan of a Novel, according to Hints from Various Quarters

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    The intention of the work was to set down the essential parts of the "ideal novel". Austen was following, and guying, the recommendations of Clarke. [1] The work was also influenced by some of Austen's personal circle with views on the novel of courtship, and names are recorded in the margins of the manuscript; [9] they included William Gifford, her publisher, and her niece Fanny Knight.

  6. Edward Ferrars - Wikipedia

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    Edward Ferrars is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is the elder of Fanny Dashwood's two brothers and forms an attachment to Elinor Dashwood. As first described in Sense and Sensibility: "Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not ...

  7. Eligible (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice is a 2016 novel written by Curtis Sittenfeld that is a modern-day reinterpretation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice [1] set in Cincinnati, Ohio. Eligible is the latest book in the Austen Project, a series that pairs contemporary novelists with Jane Austen’s novels. [1]

  8. John Murray (publishing house) - Wikipedia

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    John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

  9. Karen Joy Fowler - Wikipedia

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    Her 2004 novel The Jane Austen Book Club become a critical and popular success including being on The New York Times bestsellers list. Six members of an early 21st-century book club discuss Jane Austen books. Although it is not a science fiction or fantasy work, science fiction does play an integral part to the novel's plot. [3]