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Jane Austen

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  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune — cents and sensibility

    In Jane Austen’s time, only the eldest sons could inherit wealth. So how did the younger sons survive?

  • Friday, 2 August, 2019
    Bank of England
    Archives shed light on Jane Austen’s earnings

    Author’s finances compare badly even with today’s impoverished novelists

  • Friday, 10 August, 2018
    Nilanjana Roy
    Why do we still love Jane Austen so much?

    Two hundred and forty-three years after her birth, her novels are still bestsellers, inspiring fans from Sussex to Singapore

  • Friday, 13 April, 2018
    ReviewTelevision
    Cunk on Britain, BBC2 — cake-and-eat-it satire

    The academic experts invited to enlighten gormless presenter Philomena Cunk are getting canny

  • Thursday, 5 October, 2017
    Nobel prizes
    Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel prize for literature
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
    UK business & economy
    Plastic Jane Austen £10 note unveiled

    New polymer banknotes have been dogged with controversy

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2017
    World
    Bank of England unveils new £10 note featuring Jane Austen
  • Friday, 16 June, 2017
    FT Books Essay
    Cents and sensibility: Jane Austen’s world of risk

    Two centuries after her death, the writer is re-emerging as a pioneer whose interests lay far beyond cosy village life

  • Monday, 5 June, 2017
    ReviewTheatre
    Persuasion, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester — cheeky

    An adaptation that brings modern dress and contemporary wackiness to Jane Austen

  • Promoted Content
  • Sunday, 4 June, 2017
    Lucy Kellaway
    Paul Romer’s ‘and’ quota is a false economy

    A war of words at the World Bank as chief economist lambasts sloppy writing

  • Monday, 24 April, 2017
    House & Home
    Five reasons to live in Bath, Somerset

    Roman baths and Regency architecture make the home of Jane Austen a refined choice

  • Friday, 31 March, 2017
    FT Magazine
    Jane Austen, a £400 painting and an art mystery

    Anjana Ahuja explains how a portrait she bought at auction plunged her into one of the art world’s most enduring controversies

  • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
    ReviewArts
    Love & Friendship — film review: ‘Wonderful’

    A fresh, funny and poignant Jane Austen adaptation

  • Friday, 22 April, 2016
    UK business & economy
    Turner is new face of £20 note

    Painter selected as representative of British visual arts

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2016
    ReviewLife & Arts
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies — film review: ‘The title is the funniest thing’

    Seth Grahame-Smith follows his ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ with this piece of silliness

  • Monday, 28 September, 2015
    LexWorld
    Vodafone/Liberty: cents for sensibility

    The dream of an asset swap never made much sense

  • Wednesday, 1 July, 2015
    ReviewArts
    Of Good Stock, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York — review

    Melissa Ross’s play is an engaging, at times heart-catching family drama

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2015
    UK business & economy
    BoE seeks person of note as face of £20

    Public consultation opens to replace Scottish economist Adam Smith on banknote

  • Friday, 21 November, 2014
    ReviewBooks
    ‘Emma’, by Alexander McCall Smith

    Can Alexander McCall Smith update Jane Austen for the Facebook generation?

  • Thursday, 7 August, 2014
    FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
    Further reading
  • Friday, 25 April, 2014
    David Tang
    A damper on the hamper

    ‘I once turned down a picnic with my editor because I suspected that the champagne would be tepid’

  • Monday, 27 January, 2014
    Brian GroomBrian Groom
    The UK’s vanishing Aussies are missed

    The success of their home, resource-driven economy is putting Australians off staying in Britain

  • Sunday, 22 December, 2013
    LexEuropean companies
    European companies: signs of life

    Restructuring companies did best on stock market in 2013

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2013
    FT Photo DiaryCentral banks
    New money for the old lady
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2013
    FT AlphavilleIzabella Kaminska
    The (early) Lunch Wrap
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