How to catch a Darcy of your own This guide to finding love the Jane Austen way leaves Frances Wilson feeling like a wallflower

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 25, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

WHICH Jane Austen character are you? Jane Bennet, who almost loses Mr Bingley because she hides from him how much she likes him? Her sister Elizabeth, who wins the ultimate score, Mr Darcy, just by being "herself''? Or perhaps you resemble most the youngest of the Bennet girls, flirtatious Lydia, who throws herself blindly at Wickham and subsequently comes to no good?

It's time to tear up the dating rulebooks girls, says Lauren Henderson in Jane Austen's Guide to Dating: our favourite novelist had it right all along. And while you're at it chuck out that egg- timer you've been told to keep by ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Jane Austen, bibliography for 2001.(Miscellany)(Bibliography)
; ABBOTT, ROBERT. Jane Austen. Variation: A Beginner's Guide. London...Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House. Jane Austen Mystery 6. New York: Bantam, 2001. BERNARD, CATHERINE. Pride and prujudice, Jane Austen: Dans l'oeil du paradoxe. Paris: Ellipses...
Jane austen, works and studies 1999. (Conference Papers).(Bibliography)
; ...annotated bibliographies of the work of Jane Austen (UP Virginia, 1973 and 1985, and Ohio...Heaven': Did Mark Twain Really Hate Jane Austen? Virginia Quarterly Review 75 (1999...AND JOHN P. HOLMS, comps. Bite-Size Jane Austen Sense & Sensibility from One of...
Books: Thrilled by a sponge cake Caroline Moore compares how three biographers deal with Jane Austen's quiet life
; Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Viking, pounds 20, 341 pp Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes Fourth Estate, pounds 20, 578 pp Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen, A Biography by Valerie Grosvenor Myer Michael O'Mara Books, pounds 18.99, 248 pp EVERY...
Mysterious Portrait of Jane Austen Up for Sale
; ...NPR) 04-19-2007 Mysterious Portrait of Jane Austen Up for Sale Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time...believed to be the only oil painting of Jane Austen up for sale. It's being sold by one...as it is known, the Rice portrait of Jane Austen could sell for as much as $800,000...
Jane Austen once more.(Book review)
; ...The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...275 pp. $65.00. Knox-Shaw, Peter. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge...275 pp. $75.00 Sutherland, Kathryn. Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood...
how to become a complete Jane Austen bore
; Visit Jane Austen's house in Chawton, near Alton in Hampshire (snappily named Jane Austen's House). It will set you back a mere pounds...of William Wordsworth). Join the thriving Jane Austen Society, which boasts 2,000 fully paid- up...
Revering the Irreverent; The Jane Austen Society, Celebrating Her Timeless Sensibilities
; ...But a good many of those attending the Jane Austen Society of North America's 12th annual...like a church meeting. Worshipers of Jane Austen can debate about her novels for hours...every one. This year's gathering of the Jane Austen Society, or JASNA, was the first in...
The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family.(Review)
; ...David, ed., The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family. Iowa...P in association with the Jane Austen Society, 1997. xvii, 106 pp...Selwyn's compilation of all Jane Austen's poetry and most of the poems...
Jane Austen and Winchester Cathedral (1).(Miscellany)
; IT IS ENTIRELY FITTING that Jane Austen--one of our greatest writers, next to...Cathedral since the Reformation that of Jane Austen is the most celebrated (Vaughan 175...not least of literary pilgrimage, with Jane Austen's tomb as the holy-of-holies, the shrine...
No toes in Miss Austen Carol Shields has followed the fashion for updating Jane Austen, says Caroline Moore
; Jane Austen by Carol Shields Weidenfeld & Nicolson...p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN JANUARY 1801 , Jane Austen wrote to her sister Cassandra commissioning...valiantly against the perception that Jane Austen lived a dull or disappointed life, and...