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English novelist Jane Austen
Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister,...
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Novelist Jane Austen
Jane Austen, pencil-and-watercolor sketch on paper by her sister, Cassandra Austen,...
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Jane Austen's house
The house in which Jane Austen lived from 1809 to 1817, Chawton, England.
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Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson (left) and Kate Winslet in
Sense and Sensibility
(1995), directed...
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Pride and Prejudice
Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier in
Pride and Prejudice
(1940), directed...
© 1940 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Emma
Gwyneth Paltrow (left) and Toni Collette in
Emma
(1996), directed by Douglas...
© 1996 Miramax Films
Pride and Prejudice
Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the TV miniseries
Pride and Prejudice
(1995).
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