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...Letter in response to this article: More to Austen than bonnet-laden romance / From Heather Thomas, Trustee, The Jane Austen Society, London N1, UK...
...fact underrated, because no one likes to admit that they have only just discovered Kind of Blue or King Lear....
...For those for whom it would not be Christmas without bonnets, baskets and Jane Austen, you can see him as the delightfully awkward Edward Ferrars in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility....
...Which company did Edward VII call “the jeweller of kings and the king of jewellers”? In which Jane Austen novel does the heroine marry Edmund Bertram?...
...She is the Stephen King chair of literature at the University of Maine. [MUSIC PLAYING] Last month, the Boston Marathon made an announcement....
...Kings and their heirs favoured military and ceremonial dress....
..., along with four ladies in headscarves, four guards with rifles, a gentleman in a broad pinstriped suit and pointed tan shoes and another who explained to me that his favourite book in English is Jane Austen...
...If this tradition is followed, King Charles will be shown facing left. Similar to the coins, new stamps featuring the King’s portrait will also begin to enter circulation in the months ahead....
...Tempest, and in Constance’s heart-rending speech in King John: “Grief fills the room up of my absent child . . ....
...She was lobbying — lobbying the King of France, lobbying Elizabeth and others through the French ambassador.”...
...King Midas and Croesus are there too. The tapestry was commissioned, we are told, by Henry VIII and once hung on the walls of Hampton Court....
...Today, some 30 years after she graduated, you can see Borrallo in full Norland uniform in the background of photographs of the royal family, tending to the needs and whims of the future king Prince George...
...Beloved by all from Robert Burns to Jane Austen and the first generation of the Romantic poets, it contained one of Cowper’s most famous aphorisms: “God made the country, and man made the town.”...
...Gifts to grandchildren — or anyone else — are “very tax efficient,” says Austen....
...Jane Austen often stayed on Sloane Street with her brother. Marshall Wood, a successful 19th century sculptor, once lived with his family at No. 120....
...Austen Chamberlain, leader of the house, emphatically opposed any autonomy for Ireland....
...In Jane Austen’s novels, Christmas is an occasion filled with games too....
...Abbey, London The site of coronations and royal weddings, the storied abbey has set up a vaccination hub in its Poets’ Corner where literary luminaries such as Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer and Jane Austen...
...In Bridgerton, Lady Danbury comments: “Look at our queen, look at our king . . . We were two separate societies, divided by colour until a king fell in love with one of us.”...
...Austen began by larding it on....
...So it was something of a surprise when, as a music student at Edinburgh University, then at King's College London and the Royal Academy of Music, she revealed her capacity for inhabiting multiple genres....
...At the root of the ritual lies a simple problem of oversupply: what to do with “all these girls”, as Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet would wonder aloud many years later....
...Gill Hornby (Miss Austen , Century RRP£12.99, January/Flat Iron RRP$26.99, April) and Helen Moffett (Charlotte , Manilla Press RRP£12.99, May) field Austen-themed novels, the first concerning Cassandra Austen...
...“We had a great outing at Burger King,” he says. “They don’t fry like the other fast food joints, they flame grill their meat.”...
...So it’s significant that London’s Kings Place is putting on a year-long festival devoted to the output of more than 140 women composers....
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