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What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls?

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Duration: 0:42:02 | Added: 07 Oct 2013
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Duration: 0:42:02 | Added: 07 Oct 2013
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.

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