Austen’s natural preoccupation with women’s social and economic standing chimes with the feminist times. “It remains so thoroughly relevant,” says South African writer, activist and ...

Feminist Kayleigh Dray says ... they were born without a penis. That’s some Jane Austen level BS right there, isn’t it? The rule of primogeniture - a feudal dictate by which a hereditary ...

Elizabeth Bennet is the inspiring and independent protagonist of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In a world before terms ...

JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF ... As she knows, she is not the first to take on the subject: Feminist Recovery is an established school. Romney acknowledges her debts to Dale Spender, to Sandra ...

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

The 19th-century novelist Jane Austen helped define literature geared ... and "Emma" during the Regency era, they were quite feminist and groundbreaking at the time. Not only does Austen ...

Romney vividly communicates her sometimes surprised enjoyment of the works that shaped Austen, finding them in some ways ...

This handsome four-part adaptation of the 2020 novel by Gill Hornby puts Jane Austen’s older sister ... love and friendship with a nice proto-feminist theme of female independence and living ...