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Friday essay: foggy, flirty and too much – Jane Austen’s menopausal women solicit compassion while making us laugh

Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more clearly.

Sophie Gee

Universities were created to be communities where ideas – wrong ones, right ones, contradictory ones – can coexist and coalesce into the truth.

Universities were created to be communities where ideas – wrong ones, right ones, contradictory ones – can coexist and coalesce into the truth.

Universities were created to be communities where ideas – wrong ones, right ones, contradictory ones – can coexist and coalesce into the truth.

Universities were created to be communities where ideas – wrong ones, right ones, contradictory ones – can coexist and coalesce into the truth.

I’ve dedicated my professional life to reading and teaching the English classics. The crucial thing about classics is that they start as...

Warning: This story contains the name of a deceased Indigenous person. For HSC English in 1991, I studied Henry IV, Part I, the poems of Seamus...