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Academic: Jane Austen Had a Lot of Help From Editor
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LONDON (Oct. 24) - She's renowned for her precise, exquisite prose, but new research shows Jane Austen was a poor speller and erratic grammarian who got a big helping hand from her editor. Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice." She said Saturday that they contradicted the claim by Austen's brother Henry that "everything came finished from her pen." Stock Montage / Getty Images An Oxford University English professor believes Jane Austen's elegantly ...
Sisters in Reading: A Page From the Millennial Book Club
By Jamie Stiehm - Politics DailyThe Millennial Book Club was established in Baltimore on Jan. 9, 2000 in my apartment. Three of the six founders were Baltimore Sun reporters, and the other three were "found" through the newspaper. The then-editor, John Carroll, introduced me to Laura, a cheerful arrival in town from Chicago, and she and I started the club. Now we are nine -- making a full house on the 9th of January, 2010 as we gathered round Laura's fireplace. We discussed "The Awakening," an 1899 American classic by Kate Chopin. Champagne made spirits sparkle at the 10-year mark. Four founding members were among us, none ...
Save Our Post Office: Why Privatizing This Treasure Is a Bad Idea
By Jamie Stiehm - Politics DailyI'd say a country's postal service is an excellent indicator of how civilized it is -- and there is no place like England for that. You can mail a letter in London in the morning and it will arrive somewhere else in the city in time for tea that afternoon. Pretty brilliant. Our U.S. Postal Service is precious, too -- established by the Founding Fathers in 1789 to spread democracy and dialogue among the 13 states. I love the little things about the post office, like a hand cancel (an ink stamp and a keepsake of when and where a letter originated). And in my book, 44 cents is a small price to ...
Can the BBC Survive? Broadcaster Alters Its Voice in the Digital Age
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyAs America recovers from its agonizing scrimmage over health care, the United Kingdom is embroiled in its own version of a national identity crisis: Where does Britain's publicly financed, bellwether broadcaster -- the BBC -- fit in a competitive, digital age? Most Americans have at least a passing familiarity with the British Broadcasting Corp. They've heard those erudite-sounding British voices offering news from far away places like Sri Lanka on National Public Radio. Or they've watched some of the BBC's most popular television exports, including such comedies as "The Office" or the ...
Vampires Infuse Emily Bronte With New Blood
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyMichelle, while reading your post about the continued relevance in 2009 of Marilyn French's older works, I kept thinking of another set of old works that still feels new, also from famous female authors and also still very popular today. Though, in this case, there is one key addition: zombies. The successful Jane Austen mash-up, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," is due to be followed up this month with "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters." And Elton John's Rocket Pictures announced plans earlier this year to produce "Pride and Predator," in which Austen period characters -- in between ...
Jane Austen's The Dugout
By B. Thompson Stroud - AOL NewsAs a blogger with no real job, I spend most of my day loading and refreshing FanHouse, looking for something to write about. Imagine my shock and dismay yesterday upon seeing Tom Fornelli's report that Jane Austen invented the game of baseball.Frankly, this changes everything. From now on I'm going to start writing Dugouts in the spirit of which the game itself was created. I'm going to wear a hat in the style of Abraham Lincoln to my next pick-up game, and I'm going to film at least six new innings for Ken Burns' Baseball to be played before the program that feature men and women about to ...
Apparently Jane Austen Invented Baseball
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsBaseball has long been known as America's Pastime, as it was supposedly first invented by Civil War general Abner Doubleday back in 1839. This has long been the accepted truth about baseball's creation, but in recent years it's starting to look more and more likely that Doubleday had nothing to do with inventing the sport.After all, he never took credit for it, and after his death Doubleday left a lot of papers and letters to his family. None of them ever mentioned baseball. So if Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball, just who in the hell did? Well, if you were to ask a couple of Brits, ...
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