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  • n  English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)
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  • Willa Cather: A Hidden Voice
    Hermione Lee The Selected Letters of Willa Cather edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout In the past quarter of a century, there have been dramatic shifts in Cather’s reputation. Fierce Cather wars have raged in the American literary and scholarly world, not entirely unlike the battles that are fought over Jane Austen’s legacy. The celebration of Cather as an American pastoralist, a kind of ...
    June 20, 2013 - New York Review of Books
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    June 18, 2013 - The News-Herald
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  • David Furnish in FANGORIA (blog)
    It felt like a fresh and funny way to blow apart the done-to-death Jane Austen genre by literally dropping this alien into the middle of a costume drama, where he stalks and slashes to horrific effect,David Furnish, who'll produce with Rocket...
  • Andrew Davies in CNN
    Her work, Davies argues, "is not just social comedy. It's about money, struggle for individualism, sex -- all the kinds of things that interest us now. People sometimes misinterpret that. Jane Austen is regarded as such a prim writer. Well, she's...
  • Julian Jarrold in Washington Post
    It was very . . . daunting,says director Julian Jarrold diplomatically. "Austen fans can be quite passionate. We had various communiques with the Jane Austen Society. They were afraid we would dumb her down or turn her into a chick-lit...

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