After all, Jane Austen wrote her gothic parody, Northanger Abbey, almost 200 years ago.

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It is a truth less than universally acknowledged that in addition to six beloved society novels, Jane Austen wrote part of a seventh.

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"Maybe the star isn't available or doesn't like the role or the director, " says Hirshenson, who along with her partner Jane Jenkins wrote the book A Star is Found: Our Adventures of Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies.

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"Jane Austen devotees are eager to see the places Jane knew or wrote about - it's about being able to visualise it when you are standing there, " she said.

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Then, Jane Espenson, who wrote an episode, chimed in: "I'm there, if needed, " she tweeted.

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Do you know what that dismal woman wrote to Jane Carlyle?

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Some years ago, Mr Nokes wrote an excellent, rigorous and scholarly life of Jonathan Swift, so that his fanciful approach to Jane Austen comes as something of a surprise and a disappointment.

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