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  • I must confess I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book when I heard it described as Jane Austen meets Bridget Jones.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • In her determination, Jones isn't that different from her character Kim, who she describes as a "Jane Austen heroine".

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • I wrote a non-fiction dating guide, called Jane Austen's Guide To Dating, which really works – it's how I found my husband!

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Where Eaves and Kimpel were apparently cautious in tracing this liberating effect on literary females, Ms. Moers has no qualms in calling Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Eliot "Richardsonians all."

    The Law of the Jungle 2009

  • I wrote a non-fiction dating guide, called Jane Austen's Guide To Dating, which really works – it's how I found my husband!

    Interview with Lauren Henderson 2009

  • If you wanted to be picky about it, you could call Jane Austen "chick lit."

    Chick Lit Miss Snark 2006

  • On TV, to paraphrase Jane Austen, a young man in possession of a new sitcom is generally considered to be in no need of a wife.

    How I Met Your Mother: Who Says Men Hate Marriage? - Tuned In - TIME.com 2005

  • Her publishers, for once overestimating reader prurience, have chosen a jacket photo of a sultry Julia in her twenties, nothing to do with the large, funny, goofy, and endearing television personality we are familiar with, though, to paraphrase Jane Austen, there should be no natural contradiction between physical size and the flutterings of desire.

    American Pie Johnson, Diane 1997

  • Vulgar criticism calls Jane Austen's work Dutch painting.

    Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

  • The BBC is planning a television special called "Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?" that will investigate the illustration and the author's life.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVE ITZKOFF 2011

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