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I love Jane Austen. But a fresh revival of the idea that what a woman needs most is to marry a man is the last thing we need, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Bank of England has announced a redesign of its banknotes and invited the public to suggest new themes that might feature on them. Victoria Cleland, the Bank of England’s chief cashier, said this was as “a symbolic representation of our collective national identity and an opportunity to celebrate the…

The Bank of England is redesigning money with new themes. So how about Lincoln Cathedral, the London Marathon … or wheelie bins, suggest Athena Kugblenu, David Reynolds, Coco Khan, Connor Myers and Henry Bonsu

There’s another dino crisis as the cold-blooded megafranchise roars on, and the rapper-poet returns with a hugely personal new album

The One Day author on laughing hysterically at Adrian Mole and coming around to Persuasion

Georgian city is not shy of milking its links with the author, but actually she was not happy during her time there

In Pride and Prejudice (1813), when heroine Elizabeth Bennet arrives at Netherfield Park with “her petticoat six inches deep in mud”, she walks not only through the fields of Hertfordshire, but into one of literature’s most memorable images of women’s independence.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones is to play the role of Elinor Dashwood in a new movie adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility.