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Five books to read while in the Derbyshire countryside

The Derbyshire countryside, in England’s East Midlands, is a region that has inspired writers – both classic and contemporary. The juxtaposition of rolling hills, stark moorland and craggy summits play backdrop to numerous novels in a variety of genres.

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Paula Rego, an appreciation: ‘She painted to find out what she felt’

In person and in her imaginative work, the artist was a fierce, mischievous presence, championing women’s lives

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Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

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Where to start with: Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys’s prequel to Jane Eyre, is a set text in schools but are you familiar with the rest of the Dominica-born writer’s work? This handy guide from her biographer will help you find a way in

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Jane Eyre review – who is the true ‘mad woman in the attic’?

Chris Bush’s gripping new adaptation – the centrepiece of a Brontë festival – adds an interesting psychological twist

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Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’

The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley

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‘Jane Eyre’ proves that some novels have always come with content warnings

Labelling ‘Jane Eyre’ as a dangerous text is nothing new – and it certainly wasn’t recommended for children when it first appeared, writes Jo Waugh

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Jane Eyre – content warnings are as old as the novel itself

“Read Jane Eyre if you dare” warned papers recently. The Daily Mail had sent a request for information to Salford University and subsequently claimed that the institution had issued “trigger warnings” on a literature module that included Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.

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