Word: austens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, he's an unusual type of cad--not the Austen type, really. He genuinely loves [Fanny] and really reassesses his behavior. Nobility inspires him. It's harder to judge him because he's not really all that bad. His affair with Mariah is a typically human thing--how often do people break up and sleep with someone else...
Rowling says the urge to be a writer came to her early during what she describes as a "dreamy" internal childhood. She began writing stories when she was six. She also read widely, whipping through Ian Fleming at age nine. Sometime later she discovered Jane Austen, whom Rowling calls "my favorite author ever." She was writing a novel for adults when, during a 1990 train ride, "Harry Potter strolled into my head fully formed." For the next five years Rowling worked on Book One and plotted out the whole series, which will consist of seven novels, one for each year...
...simple response to this is that the very explosion of ancient literary props in Hollywood shows just how impoverished our contemporary imagination has become: the only way we can find good stories is by going back to Titus Andronicus. Clueless directors find their inspiration in Jane Austen. But this doesn't get around the fact that we're seeing full-dress, four-hour versions of Hamlet now, with Dostoevsky's life story, in The Gambler, on its way this August. And these are not just the playthings of the black berets in art houses; to my alarm, the Academy Awards...
Also on the upside, despite the identity crisis, Shakespeare's royalties have skyrocketed much as Jane Austen's did a few years ago as every Hollywood producer scrambles to make good on the success of Oscar hit "Shakespeare in Love." To be sure, that comedy misappropriated a few of the sonnets for dramatic purposes, but it brought lines from "Romeo and Juliet" to the screen and was filmed on a set similar to the Bard's old haunt, The Globe Theatre, recently rebuilt in London. "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a serious effort at bringing an entire play of Shakespeare...
Also on the list are Hildegarde of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Emily Bronte, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Hannah Arendt, Sarah Caldwell, Martha Graham and Toni Morrison...