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Why Do Americans Love Downton Abbey?
I can’t speak for everyone, but I like the show for the sheer Englishness of it. The show actually depicts a long-vanished England, so there’s an element of nostalgia, too. And the England depicted...
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If I Could Choose a Tiara…
My choice would be the Devonshire Tiara. It’s ensconced in a display case among many other treasures at Chatsworth, one of my very favorite English stately homes. And my favorite wearer of this tiara?...
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Jane Austen in Tel Aviv
I just saw a fine Israeli movie, Fill the Void, that could have been written by Jane Austen–if she’d spent some time in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic community in Tel Aviv. The director, Rama Burshtein, is...
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Jane Austen, Wallet-Sized
It was big news this week when the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen’s face will appear on 10-pound notes beginning in 2017. Reuters image from artsbeat-austen-blog480, featured in NYT article...
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Travels with Jane
Reuters image from artsbeat-austen-blog480, featured in NYT article cited below I have to comment again on the new ten-pound banknote that will begin featuring Jane Austen in 2017. I was curious about...
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