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ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

After four and a half years they had a permanent home again, provided for them by Edward Austen Knight on his Chawton estate. The red-brick cottage stands in the main road of the village, only...

Austen's status in the English-speaking world is not so far equalled among, for instance, French speakers. Valérie Cossy noted in March 2006 that (largely on account of inaccurate and inadequate translations) [v]ery few people in...

In July 2009 Chawton House Library marked the two-hundredthth anniversary of JA 's settling in Hampshire with a highly successful conference on new directions in scholarship about her. In November 2009-March 2010 the Morgan Library and Museum

PA 's latest novel, The Life of Charlotta Du Pont. An English Lady; Taken from her own Memoirs, was advertised with her name; it was dedicated to a Mrs Rowe.

The borrowed text expands in a few places (but only in the early pages) and renames the characters (making a few slips), but otherwise changes nothing. This barefaced plagiarism remained undetected until Bonnie Kulik discovered...