I settled back into the train seat and pulled a notebook out of my bag: something extraordinary had happened, and I needed to process it by writing it down. Speeding along the south coast, past Arunde...
04.20.2024 Theguardian.com and 3 sitesThere may be gems about Jane Austen’s life and times buried in a memoir handwritten by her older brother – but the hitch is that it is proving difficult to decipher his tricky handwriting. So museum c...
04.23.2024 Theguardian.com and 1 sitesDavid Nicholls enjoys a bit of structural scaffolding. In his debut, 2003’s student romance Starter for Ten , it is the TV quiz University Challenge. A European Interrail itinerary forms a backdrop to...
04.24.2024 Theguardian.com and 3 sitesThe Jane Austen museum has asked fans to help transcribe her brother's 'spidery' handwriting in a rare manuscript never seen before by the public. Experts believe the memoir, written by her older brot...
04.24.2024 dailymail.co.uk , telegraph.co.ukJane Austen enthusiasts are being asked to help transcribe a handwritten manuscript biography of her brother Frances. The unpublished text details the life, travels and navel career of Admiral Sir Francis William Austen. The Jane Austen House Museum is calling for help transcribing the 78-page document so it can be published online. Along with an album of paintings, it is on display at the museum to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth. Believed to be written by Admiral Austen himself, despit...
04.24.2024 yahoo.com , bbc.comFrom Agatha Christie to Ian Fleming to Jane Austen, here are five famous author homes-turned hotels where bookworms can lay their heads. From Agatha Christie to Ian Fleming to Jane Austen, here are fi...
04.22.2024 Bbc.comLyme Regis’s charms have always been resolutely genteel and old-fashioned, from its sedate regency seafront to its fondness for fossil shops and all things antique and literary. It is a seaside town t...
04.21.2024 Theguardian.com and 5 sitesNan Shepherd, the Scottish poet and nature writer whose vivid reflections on her treks through the Cairngorms have brought posthumous acclaim, is celebrated in a new play that aims to unravel the myst...
04.19.2024 Theguardian.comThe BBC plans to use a multimillion investment in artificial intelligence to transform its educational offering and attract the licence-fee payers of the future. After being heavily relied upon by des...
04.21.2024 Theguardian.com and 4 sitesWhat do men talk about when no woman is around, I will never know. While Jane Austen rarely wrote dialogues between men, Dorothy L Sayers said she simply assumed that men, when alone with each. . .
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