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Sitting poised on the ground, with a lacy cardigan framing her bright blue eyes, she looks like a Jane Austen heroine...
...obviously hit it off,” Heller says. She kept the engagement a secret—even from her sister and mother—just as Jane Fairfax did in the Jane Austen novel “Emma,” she says. The differences in their family backgrounds—hers leaned liberal, his conservative—also complicated matters...
...only typifies their long-distance relationship, but also features her huband’s first name, Mark. That’s 116— “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments...”—a favorite among the Austen set, having been featured in 1995’s Sense and Sensibility...
...seen Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice before--as an MGM classic, a BBC mini-series and, last year, a modern-day Mormon movie. But Bride and Prejudice will mark the first time we've seen it go Bollywood. Director Gurinder Chadha enjoyed a surprise smash with Bend It like Beckham. Can she go from goal to gold? --By Richard Corliss...
...Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien...