Austen was not well known in Russia and the first Russian translation of an Austen novel did not appear until 1967.

Van Gogh's Starry Night, a Jane Austen novel,

Consider Citizen Kane as valuable as Jane Austen.

Austen continued to work in spite of her illness.

Let's look to the plays of Shakespeare, the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen.

So they've got these furry 160 pound dogs all look like velociraptors, all named after Jane Austen characters.

There's a volume ofJane Austen upstairs by my bed... and a glass of hot milk that's getting cold.

Her Regency romances were inspired by the writings of Jane Austen, whose novels were set in the same era.

This area includes such famous peaks as K2 (Mount Godwin Austen, at 8,611 meters the second highest peak in the world).

The interest generated in Austen by these critics led to the discovery and study of other woman writers of the time.

let Pip teach us what to expect from ourselves, have a talk with Austen and Elizabeth about our prides and prejudices.

In Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (1975), perhaps the most important of these works, Marilyn Butler argues that Austen was steeped in, not insulated from, the principal moral and political controversies of her time, and espoused a partisan, fundamentally conservative and Christian position in these controversies.

You may think you know what is going on in that Jane Austen novel that is, until your first encounter with postmodern deconstructionism.

Around the start of the 20th century, Austen novels began to be studied at universities and appear in histories of the English novel.

In Jane Austen and the Body 'The Picture of Health, (1992) John Wiltshire explored the preoccupation with illness and health of Austen's characters.

You may think you know what is going on in that Jane Austen novel that is, until your first encounter with postmodern deconstructionism.

The first was Oxford Shakespearean scholar A. C. Bradley's 1911 essay, generally regarded as the starting point for the serious academic approach to Jane Austen .

A photograph of the Taj hotel up in flames by Soumit Kar. A photograph of the same hotel by Mayank Austen Soofi on fire at night.

And at the end of my talk, you would all stand up and you would go, Thank you Plato, thank you Shakespeare, thank you Jane Austen.

Although Austen's novels had been published in the United States since 1832, albeit in bowdlerised editions, it was not until after 1870 that there was a distinctive American response to Austen.

In the 19th century there followed further innovation by Jane Austen, the gothic novelist Mary Shelley, the children's writer Lewis Carroll, the Brontë sisters, the social campaigner Charles Dickens, the naturalist Thomas Hardy, the realist George Eliot, the visionary poet William Blake and romantic poet William Wordsworth.