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In praise of middlebrow women's fiction

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

Newsroom.co.nz

Review: ‘Rosaline’ is ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from another teenager’s point of view — the jilted cousin

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?

Chicago Tribune

Rare first edition ‘Emma’ becomes most expensive Jane Austen novel ever sold

Copy of novel sold for £375,000

The Independent UK

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Most expensive Jane Austen novel sells for £375,000

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

The Guardian - UK

Mrs Wickham review – Austen spinoff sees despairing Lydia ‘banished’ to the north

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

The Guardian - UK

British cuisine translated in Chinese?

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

Salon

The 100 Best Movies of All Time: The Ultimate Must-Watch Films

We consider these essential viewing.

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Review: 'The Book Haters' Book Club,' by Gretchen Anthony

FICTION: A beloved bookstore in Minneapolis' Lyn-Lake neighborhood is threatened for redevelopment. Chaos, hijinks and resistance ensue.

Tribune News Service

Marsha Hunt, 1940s star and Hollywood blacklist victim, dies at 104

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jane Austen letter about her own ‘Mr Darcy’ on show at author’s home

Message to sister, in which Pride and Prejudice’s author says she is to ‘flirt her last’ with Tom Lefroy, unveiled

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ve become addicted to ‘stable ambiguity’’ — how dating apps rewired our brains forever

What happens if you turn the process of finding a life partner into a highly addictive video game? Nothing good, says Hattie Crisell

Evening Standard

Our pick of some of the best book to film and TV adaptations, from Pachinko to Dune

There have been hundreds of wonderful screen adaptations. These are some of our favourites

Evening Standard

Mr Malcolm’s List review – costumes steal the show in Regency romp

A jilted beauty plots her revenge in this perky but predictable period drama

The Guardian - UK

Balls, gowns, marriage pressures. Jane Austen was basically Pakistani

In this excerpt from her upcoming book Desi Girl, Sarah Malik examines her obsession with western 18th-century literature

The Guardian - AU

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Belfast Live

Wife of Dungeons & Dragons director hails Belfast as a 'best-kept secret' after living in NI

The author said she misses the city a lot now she's returned to Los Angeles

The Guardian - UK

Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony

A snooty eligible bachelor gets his comeuppance in an ‘alt-historical’ tale told with precisely the right amount of seriousness – and no more

The Guardian - UK

AI-generated art illustrates another problem with technology

Artificial intelligence is being used to design magazine covers and provide pictures for internet newsletters. What could possibly go wrong?

The Guardian - UK

Karen Joy Fowler: ‘I resolved to stop pretending I’d read books I hadn’t, like Moby Dick’

The Booker-nominated author on discovering Jane Austen, taking a crash course in Moby-Dick and falling for fairytales

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The Independent UK

Top 35 literary locations in the UK as voted by readers

A study of 2,000 literary lovers has revealed the top 35 places to see in the UK, which have been made famous by the books they rate the most

Wales Online

Top 35 must-see locations for book lovers - with Brontë sisters' home topping list

The literary list features sites made famous by both authors and by their works - from Shakespeare's birthplace, to Sherwood Forest from Robin Hood

The National (Scotland)

Fantastically great women take to the stage at the Fringe

WHEN Kate Pankhurst discovered that celebrated suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a distant cousin, she had recently graduated from an illustration…

The Guardian - UK

Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside

Cheerfulness can boost your energy levels, even in tough times – as philosophers and writers have long recognised, writes Donna Ferguson

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

Salon

Reading, empathy & Austen adaptations

"I don't really hear, 'We've checked our quota for white middle class authors from Brooklyn'"

Daily Mirror

Brits' favourite books to read on staycation - with Sally Rooney topping the list

Sally Rooney's 2021 literary fiction 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' came out ahead of the Harry Potter collection and 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

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