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Taking players to a somewhat sillier Jane Austen-inspired world, Austen Translation, tasks players with marrying a wealthy bachelor, doing so by sabotaging rivals for manipulating opponents, spreading rumors, and maybe dropping a piano on someone. In Austen Translation, the player’s aim is to make their rivals look bad in the eyes of the bachelor they’re […]
ALAMY/GETTY Walkers at the Devil’s Punch Bowl It is home to hills that rise and fall like a wave, as far as the eye can see. Covered in vibrant, pale purple heather and deep green ferns, opening up to a patchwork of colour, the hills have an equally vibrant past. Here, the broom sweeps made […]
More than one billion new £10 notes have been printed ready for issue, with the first being released today. The new tenner is made of polymer, the same plastic used int he Winston Churchill £5 note. It features a raft of security innovations and is the first Bank of England note with a tactile feature […]
Jane Austen is one of the world’s most celebrated authors, and is credited with having written 14 books before her death in 1817. The new £10 note features a quote from her most famous book, Pride and Prejudice, which says: “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”. The quote is spoken by […]
1. She liked Bath buns and in a letter to her sister in 1808 wrote, “You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.” 2. This is the earliest known use of the hyphenated word “sponge-cake” and is among 40 words listed in the OED as first used by Jane Austen. 3. […]
JANE AUSTEN’S HOUSE MUSEUM Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton is where the author spent the last years of her life A Chinese woman exclaims to me: “Jane Austen changed my life,” as she snaps a photo of the author’s home. “In Shanghai, we studied Chairman Mao at school, then I read Pride And Prejudice. […]
The FX show shares a setting with Jane Austen’s stories—but nothing else. The post FX’s Taboo Is Basically Bizarro World Jane Austen appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
There’s a curious piece in today’s New York Times about the alt-right’s apparent and unexpected admiration for the works of Jane Austen. It discusses another article, written by English professor Nicole M. Wright, that chronicles its author’s experiences with exploring this unlikely Austen fanbase. The white supremacists eulogizing Austen aren’t so much interested in the […]
The literary internet is abuzz with news that Jane Austen — who died at age 41 — may have been poisoned. The evidence? Three pairs of her glasses have very strong lenses. This means she might have had cataracts. Sometimes, arsenic poisoning causes cataracts. Therefore, Jane Austen could have died from arsenic poisoning. I’m not […]
