Jane Austen and theory of mind: how literary fiction sharpens your ‘mindreading’ skills

Our enjoyment of literature and fiction is rooted in theory of mind: the cognitive ability to attribute mental states ...
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Jane Austen fans mark 250 years since the writer's birth with a wave of parties

In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books also kept her name a secret ...
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Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney dedicates a book to the women Jane Austen read

A chance encounter with Frances Burney's 1778 novel, Evelina, sent rare book dealer Rebecca Romney on a yearslong quest to find the women writers who influenced Jane Austen's work. One of Romney's ...