Literature

Six contemporary authors have been selected by the Austen Project to ‘update' or ‘reimagine' Jane Austen's timeless stories in the modern world. The Austen Project launched the first of Austen's six famous novels, Sense and Sensibility, reimagined by the contemporary romantic writer Joanna Trollope, in October 2013. Everybody is talking about it – and everybody is asking questions. Should we reimagine Jane Austen for a 21st Century reader? Why are we rewriting Jane Austen? And indeed the most controversial question: who are we to rewrite Jane Austen? Literary critic Ellen Moers declares that, ‘all of Jane Austen's opening paragraphs, and the best of her first sentences, have money in them.' Austen opens Sense and Sensibility by establishing the Dashwood family estate and relationships in ...

This month Royal Holloway's career service offers a chance to meet three distinguished graduates and students in the writing industry. Charlotte Cole met up with them to learn about their achievements… THE AUTHOR Currently studying at Royal Holloway, Georgia Mannering published her first book Roses in November, and already has her next release of The Spotty Dotty Daffodil this spring. She speaks with The Orbital about how she achieved it all. You've just written a picture book, The Spotty Dotty Daffodil, what were your influences for this? Spotty Dotty is about social acceptance and self-confidence. I actually wrote it when I was nine (although the story was very different back then and *cough* very bad). Then I revisited it when I was teamed with Bethany Straker, a brilliant illus...

Who are we to rewrite Jane Austen?

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