What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?
Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks.
This talk will introduce fictions whose representations of the path to marriage is anything but starry-eyed and rosy-coloured, and an author who is anything but 'dear sweet Aunt Jane'. Dr Sandie Byrne is a University Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing
Date Published:
7 October 2013
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Sandie Byrne
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Jane Austen, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands
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What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? by Jane Austen at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via https://dev.writersinspire.it.ox.ac.uk/content/whats-so-great-about-austen-isnt-she-just-bonnets-balls-0. Published on 07 October 2013. Accessed on 14 May 2026.
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