Synonyms for austen
ˈɔ stənausten

Princeton's WordNet

1. Austen, Jane Austennoun

   English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)

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1. Janine Barchas:

   There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely.

2. Devoney Looser:

   What's most challenging for any adapter of Jane Austen must be capturing Jane Austen fiction's incredible combination of comedy, irony and social criticism, along with genuinely moving stories of courtship.

3. Devoney Looser:

   If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied.

4. Janine Barchas:

   If you're asking me,' Were they Jane Austen's ?' I think they probably were, and I would emphasize the' probably,' because you can never know, but I think that it is likely.

5. Joel Kim Booster:

   There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.