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...Of Austen’s novels, Muir refers most frequently to Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Mansfield Park (1814), which between them feature the richest variety of incidents, such as rejected proposals, elopements...
...In Flight, his best-known opera, premiered in 1998, he profiled the purgatory of a dull-grey airport departure lounge; in Mansfield Park (2011) he found unexpected ways of illuminating one of Jane Austen...
...I’ve also listened to defenders of the great British pint such as my Rt Honourable Friends for the Vale of Glamorgan and Buckingham; in my constituency to Councillor Jane Austin who is a big supporter of...
...Of the five Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice, the estimable Jane and particularly Elizabeth have a high proportion of Latinate words....
...According to documents published by the Bank of England, her third published novel, Mansfield Park, made Austen just £310, or about £20,000 in today’s money....
...The family home at Chawton in Hampshire now has a “Jane Austen” garden: she is most unlikely to have gardened actively herself....
...“How to make money; how to turn a good income into a better” is “the most interesting [topic] in the world”, according to Henry Crawford, the charming antihero of Jane Austen’s third published novel, Mansfield...
...Michael Mansfield QC, representing the claimants, told the High Court that the women born from 1953 onwards had in some cases had four to six years of state pension contributions taken away from them....
...Queen Victoria may have appeared in Paisley-made shawls in public, but the gentry – like Lady Bertram of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park – coveted the real thing....
...and Jayne Mansfield (from £1,800)....
...As the most famous landscaper of the age he earned some typically sharp allusions in Jane Austen’s novels....
...It was the sort of assault on an established setting that Jane Austen had just deplored in her novel Mansfield Park....
...Repton was soon so fashionable that he would be name-checked in Jane Austen’s 1814 novel Mansfield Park. Another gift was for siting new houses....
...There is a touching image of Woolf, lovingly typesetting Mansfield’s stories, letter by letter, for the Hogarth Press. Woolf recognised Mansfield as her equal and ally....
...Michael Mansfield QC, acting for the general, argued that the report showed that Saddam Hussein had not posed an immediate threat to the interests of the UK and the invasion was unnecessary....
...Kathryn Sutherland is a professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and curator of ‘Which Jane Austen?’...
...This is certainly true of Mr Rochester’s orchard garden in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Though Jane turns to the garden for respite, it is never fully obtained....
...A local company is already running “Poldark tours” in the village, which has also served as the backdrop for adaptations of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, and the Horatio Hornblower series....
...For example, Taylor does not explore the friendship between Mansfield and Virginia Woolf....
...Sam Stein QC, a specialist criminal defence advocate at Mansfield Chambers, also raised concerns that in such cases, the extensive publicity might mean people would feel more reluctant to come forward with...
...Wistful thinking — now you could not get more Jane Austen than that....
...Regarding “British”, he omits Katherine Mansfield, for example, who lived and worked in the UK but whom he considers claimed by New Zealand....
...(Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld is coming soon, and Persuasion and Mansfield Park may follow.)...
...She won a place at Newcastle University to study law after being encouraged to become a barrister by Michael Mansfield QC....
...Austen used the non-gender plural pronoun after a singular subject – such as “Everybody began to have their vexation” (Mansfield Park) – 87 times....
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