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...witness to the Resurrection, rather than being acclaimed as an act of discipleship in some ways greater than the men's, was reduced to the final stage in a moving but far less central tale about the redemption of a repentant sinner. "The pattern is a common one," writes Jane Schaberg, a professor of religious and women's studies at the University of Detroit Mercy and author of last year's The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: "the powerful woman disempowered, remembered as a whore or whorish." As shorthand, Schaberg coined the term "harlotization...
...JANE AND THE GHOSTS OF NETLEY, by Stephanie Barron (Bantam; 294 pages...
Having studied European history at Princeton and counterterrorism with the CIA, Stephanie Barron is as qualified as anybody to do the impossible: write a plausible mystery novel about Jane Austen. Yes, that Jane Austen, the real-life author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, the seventh book in Barron's Jane Austen series, begins with two murders: that of a shipwright, whose throat is slit by an unknown assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces...
...Died. Jane Barbe, 74, whose name was known to few but whose voice is familiar to millions who use voice mail or pick up the phone to find out the time or temperature; in Roswell, Georgia. Barbe first recorded announcements for telephone answering system pioneer Audichron Co. in 1963. By the 1980s, she was heard by an estimated 40 million people daily...
...would want me to do whatever is possible to prevent the same tragedy from happening again,” Jane Gu said. “Being a physician and being a mother, I don’t want this thing to happen again and I think it could be happening a lot. If I can at all help with my loss, then I want...