Austen

[aw-stuhn]

noun

1. Jane, 1775–1817, English novelist.

Austen

/ ˈɔː-, ˈɒstɪn /

noun

1. Jane. 1775–1817, English novelist, noted particularly for the insight and delicate irony of her portrayal of middle-class families. Her completed novels are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818)

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Long before Jane Austen became a global phenomenon, Elizabeth Jenkins wrote the first literary biography of the novelist.

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“You’re just at this death spiral, essentially,” said Austen Jensen of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, whose members include Walmart and Dollar General.

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Dr. Jacob Bongers specializes in drone-based archaeological mapping and is the Tom Austen Brown Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

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I do know that I’ve long lived inside the books of Trollope, Dickens, Austen, Gaskell.

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Written 30 years ago by Cardiff-born Andrew Davies, the TV adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel became a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than 11 million viewers in the UK and millions more in the US.

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