Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is not autobiographical, but the famed author and her female protagonist, Elizabeth, do share certain traits. They both faced the same societal pressures, lived ...

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Capehart and Gerson on how immigration debate and abortion access will play into midterms Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and Washington Post opinion columnist Michael Gerson ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...