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☆ I always hated my first name and thought it was boring, but I didn't want to insult my parents by changing it
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I was never happy about being named Jane. The nasties at school weren't imaginative and inevitably called me "Plain Jane" or "Jane the Pain." The godmother was delighted when her first granddaughter was named Jane. AdvertisementI thought about changing my name but worried what my parents would thinkI spent a good amount of time considering my sister's question. It's not as if they'd named me Lucrezia, one of the infamous Borgia poisoners.

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☆ Opinion: It’s time for us to let go of Bridget Jones
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell of a lot more fun than any black coffee-glugging, Marx-bothering Sally Rooney heroine. The third film, 2016’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby” (which followed the 2004 sequel, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”) was enjoyable enough, but it left me feeling as though I’d filled my plate one too many times at a delicious but overstuffed buffet. (It is also a truth universally acknowledged that a piece of writing mentioning Bridget Jones or any Jane Austen adaptation must contain the phrase “it is a truth universally acknowledged,” so that’s out of the way). Bridget Jones changed that. The most disappointing thing about Bridget Jones was always the reaction to her, especially Renée Zellweger’s portrayal.

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☆ Gwyneth Paltrow says Bill Clinton slept through a White House screening of her Jane Austen adaptation: 'He was snoring right in front of me'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewGwyneth Paltrow has jokingly cursed out former President Bill Clinton for falling asleep during a showing of her 1996 film "Emma." Appearing on the First We Feast's viral YouTube interview series "Hot Ones," Paltrow was asked by host Sean Evans about the rumor that Clinton "passed out asleep" during a White House screening of the Jane Austen adaptation. Despite Clinton's response to the film, "Emma" received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for costume design and another for original score. Paltrow's role in "Emma" came two years before Paltrow's Oscar-winning performance in another period piece, "Shakespeare in Love."

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☆ The wet shirt that turned Colin Firth into a 'sex symbol' in 'Pride and Prejudice' sparked a bidding war — and sold for more than double what auctioneers predicted
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A white shirt that Colin Firth wore in 1995's "Pride and Prejudice" sold for over $31,000 at auction. In a now-infamous scene, Firth wore the linen top into a lake, where it got wet and see-through. The shirt, one of 69 costumes sold on Tuesday, sold for over twice what auctioneers predicted. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementCondolences to "Pride and Prejudice" fans — the wet shirt that turned Colin Firth into a "sex symbol" is off the market.

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☆ Colin Firth’s wet Mr Darcy shirt from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ among scores of costumes up for sale
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The legendary white button down shirt that cemented Colin Firth’s reputation as an on-screen heartthrob in “Pride and Prejudice” is expected to fetch thousands of dollars at auction. Firth immortalized Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy in the BBC adaptation of the book in 1995. Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty ImagesRecalling the moment the shirt made movie history, Collin said on the auctioneer’s site: “Mr Darcy’s ‘wet shirt moment’ was never scripted. In the scene Mr Darcy is spied emerging from a lake having taken a cooling swim on a hot summer’s day. Because on screen male nudity was not permitted (taking into account the BBC watershed and US broadcasts) – the idea of the ‘wet shirt’ was born.

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☆ He’s Probably in Your House, Lurking on Your Bookshelf
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Molly Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It appears on book covers by everyone from Jane Austen to William Faulkner to Martin Amis, but naming specific examples is a silly exercise. Walk into any bookshop and you’ll find that a good number of book covers feature Bodoni, a typeface created by Giambattista Bodoni in the late 18th century. If you read books, a piece of Bodoni is probably lurking on your shelf in gorgeous silence right now. Brand logos that either are Bodoni or owe a serious debt to it include Valentino, La Mer, Calvin Klein and Brookstone. A graphic designer seeking shorthand for “sophisticated” might reach for Bodoni or one of its relatives.

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☆ The Affair That Split New York High Society
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

STRONG PASSIONS: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York, by Barbara WeisbergThe touch of a hand from two centuries ago can spark powerful emotions in the present. In Jane Austen’s novel, their chemistry leads to marriage and the elevation of the heroine’s fortunes. But in New York in 1860, a real-life brush of hands “ignited a fiery and forbidden passion” between members of two prominent families. Their romance wrecked a marriage, destroyed the woman’s reputation and resulted in a lurid divorce trial whose salacious details filled pages of the nation’s newspapers. In “Strong Passions,” her riveting reconstruction of a scandal that “rocked genteel society,” Barbara Weisberg reassembles the story with the clear determination to treat both sides equally, and without leering.

Persons: Barbara Weisberg, “, ”, Jane Austen’s, ” Barbara Weisberg Locations: Old New York, New York

☆ Good News for Rich Uncles and Orphaned Heiresses.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

You may remember that I’ve been blitzing my way through murder mysteries this winter. As it turns out, one Agatha Christie mystery is fun, two are interesting, but once you get past three or four, they start to raise real questions about the economic incentives of the early 20th century. (There may have been some others as well? After a point they all begin to blur together.) And with surprising regularity, the culprits’ elaborate schemes of murder and misdirection are specifically designed to obtain an inheritance.

Persons: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Poirot, Roger Ackroyd Organizations: ABC, Sun

☆ Christopher Paolini Wanted a Job Involving Dragons, So He Created One
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Stefano Montali | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the months before Christopher Paolini wrote the book that made him a star in young adult fantasy, he built a hobbit hole. His family self-published the book, and for more than a year, he promoted it as he could, hand-selling copies outside bookstores and giving presentations at schools. Eventually, Carl Hiaasen, a best-selling novelist, picked up a self-published copy at a grocery store while on a family trip to Montana. His stepson — who, according to Hiaasen, said “Eragon” was “better than Harry Potter!” — finished the 500-page book in a day. Hiaasen passed the book to his editor at Random House Children’s Books, connecting Paolini to the New York publishing world.

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☆ Fact Check: ‘Patriots’ protecting Nuneaton statue post is satire
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The original Nov. 14 post on X (archived), formerly Twitter, has a photo of four men standing in front of the Eliot statue in Nuneaton with the caption: “Can’t make this up. As the events in London were kicking off, Brave Patriots of Nuneaton were courageously protecting the town statue. Another Facebook user (archived) who shared a screenshot of the satirical post said: “The brave patriots of Nuneaton on Armistice Day, proudly protecting a statue of *checks notes* George Elliot. Take that Antifa!”The photograph, which does show four men guarding the statue, was captured in June 2020 while a Black Lives Matter demonstration was underway in Nuneaton town centre. The X user who originally posted the claim said his post was satire.

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☆ What I Read and Watch to Decompress
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

“India’s Daughters,” the special newsletter series that I created with my colleagues Emily Schmall and Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, premiered last week. There will be a new chapter on Friday, and you can catch up with the first installment here if you missed it. Longtime readers will probably guess that “Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen, is at the top of my decompress-and-disconnect list. As someone who isn’t a particularly fervent fan of even real tennis matches, I find fictional ones pleasantly untaxing. I want to hear about things you have read (or watched or listened to) that you recommend to the Interpreter community.

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☆ Inside Passalacqua, the 'world's best hotel'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Maria Pasquale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The “best hotel in the world” was built by a pope and was regularly visited by one of Italy’s most famous opera composers. On 19 September in London at the inaugural World’s 50 Best Hotels, the hotel on Lake Como was named number one. Passalacqua didn’t invent the term villeggiatura, but her every detail embodies it – a romantic 18th century villa turned faultless luxury hotel where you come to exhale and leave your worries behind. Rooms without a lake view start at 1,300 euros ($1,381) per night or 1,700 euros ($1,806) for a view in November – lowest season. Next summer, rates rise to 2,300 euros ($2,443) for a standard room without a lake view, or 3,200 ($3,400) for the cheapest room with a view.

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☆ I've made thousands of dollars writing trivia questions as a side gig. It helps me pay my rent and makes socializing so much easier.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Noah Sheidlower has made thousands writing and editing trivia questions for school competitions. To be fair, I don't often write the one-liner, pub-style trivia questions that trivia enthusiasts and beer lovers alike play every Tuesday night. Outside of journalism, I write and edit trivia questions for various high-school and college competitions as a side gig. And they've helped many in the quiz bowl community want to learn more and become more inquisitive about the world. AdvertisementAdvertisementUsing trivia to inform my reportingSometimes as I learn new facts through writing questions, I notice that hidden within them are stories.

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In a WhatsApp text conversation this week, we asked Jane Austen — yes, the 19th-century British author — how she felt about Mr. Darcy, a character from one of her most famous works, “Pride and Prejudice.”After a few seconds, Ms. Austen responded. “Ah, Mr. Darcy. Everyone remembers him as one of my characters,” she said, her face appearing in a small window above our conversation. But a modern interpretation of her likeness was used by Meta, which owns WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, as part of an artificially intelligent character that could chat across the company’s messaging apps. Characters based on other people’s likenesses — including the former quarterback Tom Brady, the social media influencers Mr.

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"I'm bad with money." As a wealth advisor, I hear statements like this all the time from women, regardless of their age. So why do so many women grow up believing that they're bad at math and, later, bad with money? How can women develop skills and the confidence needed to manage their money effectively, if it isn't even considered to be theirs? Today, we still have a gender pay gap, which can negatively affect women's confidence with money.

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☆ Opinion | Jane Austen’s English Countryside Is Not Mine
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Rebecca Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

My childhood was spent making dens in the hidden corners of the landscaped gardens of a grand country estate in the Lake District. I wandered woods full of baby pheasants being fattened up for the shoot. I had lakes to paddle in and a dinghy that we bumped down the path to a private beach. First in Yorkshire, then in Bedford, then on Graythwaite Estate, in Cumbria in the Lake District. For centuries, it was not uncommon for the offer of a job in the English countryside to include accommodation.

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☆ Mysteries: Murder in Jane Austen’s England
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Tom Nolan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

‘I would not have people murdered only so that . I may investigate,” asserts 17-year-old Juliet Tilney, the precocious leading lady in Claudia Gray’s “The Late Mrs. Willoughby,” set in England in 1820. “But if murders take place regardless of my wishes, can it be wrong to seek answers? And if it is right to seek answers, then it cannot be entirely wrong to take some pleasure in doing so.”

Persons: ”, Juliet Tilney, Claudia Gray’s “, Willoughby Locations: England

☆ A wedding dress restorer displays more than 150 years of history
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Tierney is a professional dressmaker and textile restorer, and had gathered 12 of her clients to model wedding dresses sewed or restored by Tierney’s own hand. It was also a celebration of tradition, family and more than 150 years of wedding dress history. The threads of historyTierney has been restoring wedding gowns and creating her own custom work for 18 years. People loved my costumes so much they asked me to start making some for them.”A lifelong seamstress, Tierney delved into the research and artistry of historic wedding gown and lace restoration. There is a lot of trust involved.”That may mean taking the entire thing apart and repairing it piece by piece, like Tierney did with one wedding gown dating back to 1894.

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☆ ‘Polite Society’ Review: Pride and Plenty of Fists
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Amy Nicholson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Polite Society,” a rollicking genre mash-up, is set in an enclave of well-to-do Muslim Londoners who play along with the comedy’s title until they get cranky. Then come the punches and neck chops, the bruises and broken glass, the ludicrous wire-fu that allows a matron in a brocade lehenga to fly through the air. Stubborn and snotty, Ria is so hellbent on breaking up the betrothal that she’s willing to spy and lie, claw and kick. She gets as good as she gives, ending more than one scene in a bloody, heaving heap. At the same time, the audience can appreciate what Ria is too childish to see: Lena’s joy that the neighborhood screw-up has landed its most eligible bachelor.

☆ Watch an A.I. Learn to Write by Reading Nothing but Jane Austen
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Aatish Bhatia Spent Weeks Reading Dozens Of A.I. Research Articles | Training Tiny Language Models On His Computer. Before Coming To The Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

This is how language models usually start off: They guess randomly and produce gibberish. Over many, many rounds of training, language models can learn to write. As language models grow larger, the patterns that they learn can become increasingly complex. More is differentOther than the additional fine-tuning stages, the primary difference between nanoGPT and the language model underlying chatGPT is size. Large language models can become highly unpredictable, as evidenced by Microsoft Bing A.I.’s early interactions with my colleague Kevin Roose.

☆ ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Restaurant Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Christopher Orr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

At the end of the episode, Sam takes his father to see the fractured restaurant, only to find his teammates hard at work repairing it. Now, I confess I’d spent much of the episode trying to remember why Sam had named the restaurant Ola’s; I was planning to recheck Episode 3 and even last season for clues. Keeley and JackPresumably having Aurora-Borealised to their hearts’ content last episode, Keeley and Jack mostly limit themselves to coffee this time around, even if those coffees involve signed Jane Austen first editions and jewelry-filled pastry. In between, Keeley — who’d confided to Jack her love of daisies — returns to an office overflowing with them. (Also, is it just me or is it a tad stalker-y for Jack to secretly pay for Keeley and Rebecca’s dinner?)

☆ Highly successful people use this 1 skill to get more from reading, says Northwestern expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Anyone who's ever curled up with a good book knows the health benefits of regular recreational reading. There's a single tweak you can make to your reading habits to become even more successful, says Northwestern management professor Brooke Vuckovic, who teaches a MBA class on extracting leadership lessons from literature. Her tip: After you've finished reading a new book, try describing it in one sentence. There's another benefit, too: When students in Vuckovic's MBA class write one-line book descriptions, they're often struck by how differently other people see the world, she says. One person might write a summary about Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" that focuses on the central love story.

☆ King Charles III banknote images revealed for first time
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Lauren Kent | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN Business —The first images of banknotes featuring Britain’s King Charles III were unveiled on Tuesday by the Bank of England. Charles’ portrait will appear on English notes of £5, £10, £20 and £50. Image of King Charles III on the English £50 note. “This is a significant moment, as The King is only the second monarch to feature on our banknotes,” Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said ahead of the release. Earlier this month, the first coins bearing the official effigy of King Charles III entered circulation.

☆ Christmas vacations: 15 of the best places to go
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The Bath Christmas Market has a multitude of wooden chalets selling distinctively British handmade crafts in a quaint Georgian setting. Bogotá, ColombiaA woman dressed as Santa Claus sits next to a Christmas tree and a Christmas star at Bolivar Square in Bogota. Salzburg and Oberndorf, AustriaThe Christmas Market and associated festivities in Salzburg are really something to sing about. Dating back to 1570, Strasbourg claims to be the oldest Christmas market in France and one of the oldest in Europe. damianalmua/Adobe StockThe traditional Christmas colors of red, green and white take on an entirely new meaning in New Zealand.

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☆ How to adapt Jane Austen -- and why it's so hard to get right
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-07 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Over the years, Austen adaptations have made millions, been nominated for more than a dozen Oscars and several Emmys, and convinced viewers the world over that Mr. Darcy is the gold standard of suitors. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice," two of several Austen adaptations starring Asian protagonists. "Austen is a way for today's readers to both romanticize about soul mates and also sustain their self-respect," said Brodey, who's published several papers on Austen. What the best Austen adaptations get rightA strong Austen adaptation doesn't need to parrot the original text or even take place in late 18th-century England. The Austenites CNN interviewed agreed -- for an Austen adaptation to succeed, it needs to maintain the spirit of her work, especially her incisive depth and incomparable wit.

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