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A Romantic Literature Expert on Why Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’ Is Actually Worth a Watch
Carrie Cracknell’s film is a curate’s egg – a thing that is partly good and partly bad.

‘Bridgerton’ Brings the Regency Novel Back Into Fashion – But Did It Ever Go Away?
The brooding men and the naive women are very much there but this multi-cultural production is also aware of current issues and even music.

10 Years Later: How ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Changed Self-Publishing
The controversial novel and its sequels enticed more authors to experiment with self-publishing, but the latter has a history that long predates the steamy bestseller.

Escape to Austen Land
Reading Austen is like embarking on a long vacation, riding in a horse coach and halting at an inn for the night before you commence your journey the next …