testament
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tes·ta·ment
/ ˈtestəmənt/
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n.
1.
a person's will, esp. the part relating to personal property.
2.
something that serves as a sign or evidence of a specified fact, event, or quality:
growing attendance figures are a testament to the event's popularity.
3.
(in biblical use) a covenant or dispensation.
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(Testament)
a division of the Bible. See also Old Testament, New Testament.
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(Testament)
a copy of the New Testament.
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Jane austen, works and studies 1999. (Conference Papers).(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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Jane Austen once more.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
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Jane Austen Bibliography for 2000. (Miscellany).
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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Jane Austen, bibliography for 2001.(Miscellany)(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
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Jane Austen: A New Look at a Perennial Favorite.
Magazine article from: World and I; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
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Jane Austen's relics and the treasures of the East Room.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...informs us that we are looking at "Jane Austen's House." To the extent that...and in some sense still are--Jane Austen's and that in entering the house...Although this piano is not the one Jane Austen used ... she bought a similar...
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The history of Jane Austen's writing desk.(Miscellany)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY of the start of Jane Austen's creative literary life in Chawton...JASNA and the tenth anniversary of Jane Austen's writing desk being placed in...Austen-Leigh and her family. Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra...
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Features: Jane Austen unmasked After her death Jane Austen's family took pains to whitewash her character, creating an image of unsullied Regency gentility. In his new biography, David Nokes exposes this idealisation and reveals the author as she was - acerbic, intolerant and very witty
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/14/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...cut out". What dark secrets of Jane Austen's life were lost forever on Cassandra...tactful to censor the evidence of Jane Austen's scabrous and invective wit. Three days before she died, Jane Austen wrote a short satirical poem...
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JANE AUSTEN, P.I. WRITER STEPHANIE BARRON PUTS REVERED AUTHOR ON THE TRAIL OF SOME UNPLEASANTNESS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/13/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...one and Georgian England, where Jane Austen wrote her memorable books and lived...So when she began creating her Jane Austen series, the writer chose her two...write a series of books featuring Jane Austen as private investigator. The first...
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Mysterious Portrait of Jane Austen Up for Sale
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/19/2007; ; 700+ words
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Austen, Jane
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jane Austen Born: December 16, 1775 Steventon...novelist, and writer The English writer Jane Austen was one of the most important novelists...feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen created as profound an understanding and...
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Jane Austen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jane Austen The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the...the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as precise a vision...
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Gardam, Jane
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Gardam, Jane, (1928– ), novelist, children's writer...Sidmouth Letters (1980), whose title story explores the subject of Jane Austen's love life, and The Flight of the Maidens (2000), which follows...
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romantic fiction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough...surprise all viewers and readers of Jane Austen, who consider her period pieces...romances. In Northanger Abbey Jane Austen parodied the excesses of the Gothic...
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Bennett, Mr and Mrs Jane
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bennett, Mr and Mrs Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, characters in J. Austen's Pride and Prejudice .
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