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News about Jane Austen, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Pride and Popularity
 An account of Jane Austen as a canny agent of her own image.
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A Match for ?Emma?
A rare copy of Jane Austen?s ?Emma,? signed by the author, has sold for almost $500,000, according to the BBC News.
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A Different Kind of Love Triangle
 In Cathleen Schine?s novel, two sophisticated Manhattan sisters, one wildly emotional, one smartly sensible, come to the aid of their beloved aging mother.
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Austen Zombies Go Hollywood
According to Variety, Natalie Portman will battle a cast of the undead in a movie based on Seth Grahame-Smith?s best-selling novel ?Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.?
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Undead-Austen Mash-Ups
Quirk Books in Philadelphia publishes Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, irreverent rewrite of classic Jane Austen book with copious violence and mayhem sprinkled throughout story
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At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew
 ?A Woman?s Wit: Jane Austen?s Life and Legacy,? a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.
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The Sincerest Form of Lawsuit Bait
 Sequels are a constant lure for authors who didn?t write the original.
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Mr. Darcy Woos Elizabeth Bennet While Zombies Attack
Monster stories are a projection of our collective anxieties and that may explain why in the current economic downturn, zombies are starting to catch up with the long-fashionable vampire.
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I Was a Regency Zombie
 These days, America is menaced by zombie banks and zombie computers. What?s next, a zombie Jane Austen? In fact, yes.
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Austen Meets Alien in ?Pride and Predator?
For some viewers the idea of another Jane Austen-inspired period drama is sufficiently monstrous, but a coming film project seeks to update the formula with actual monsters, Variety reported. The movie ?Pride and Predator,? directed by Will Clark and written by Mr. Clark with Andrew Kemble and John Pape, will juxtapose brooding aristocrats with a brutal alien that lands in 1800s-era Britain, attacking residents and leaving them with neither sense nor sensibility. The film, to be produced by Elt...
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Mr. Darcy Comes Courting
Barack Obama is a modern incarnation of the clever, haughty, reserved and fastidious Mr. Darcy, cherished hero of chick-lit.
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Austen?s Inspiration
A portrait of the man believed to have inspired the character of Mr. Darcy in ?Pride and Prejudice? is going on sale for about $98,000 at an antiques fair in London.
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Jane Austen Meets Nancy Drew
 In this homage to ?Northanger Abbey,? a woman digs for family secrets at the home of her mystery-writer godmother.
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A Most Proper Marriage: Jane Austen and PBS
 ?The Complete Jane Austen? adds three new productions to the adaptation bank .
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Holiday Spirit Descends on Austenland
Jane Austen fans and scholars are more or less required to attend ?Innocent Diversions: A Christmas Entertainment With Jane Austen and Friends.?
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