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2007 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Actor Hugh Dancy arrives for the Toronto International Film Festival gala screening of "The Jane Austen Book Club" at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Canada on September 9, 2007. (UPI Photo/Christine Chew)

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LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A service has been held dedicating a floor stone to Britain's former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes at Westminster Abbey in London, the BBC said.
LONDON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- British author Joanna Trollope is to write a modern re-telling of Jane Austen's 200-year-old literary classic "Sense and Sensibility," her publisher said.
Jane Austen manuscript sells for $1.6M
NEW YORK, July 14 (UPI) -- A recently discovered manuscript by British literary icon Jane Austen has been sold at auction to an unnamed institution for $1.6 million, Time magazine said.
Middleton and Austen are 11th cousins
NEW YORK, June 29 (UPI) -- Prince William's wife, Kate Middleton, is the 11th cousin of iconic British author Jane Austen, Ancestry.com reported.
'Zombies' finds its Elizabeth Bennet
LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) -- Hollywood actress Emma Stone has been cast in the big-screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's novel "Pride, Prejudice and Zombies," Variety said.
LONDON, May 21 (UPI) -- An extremely rare manuscript of an unfinished novel in Jane Austen's hand is going up for auction in London.
Scholar: Jane Austen likely died of TB
LONDON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- British novelist Jane Austen most likely died in 1817 of bovine tuberculosis, not Addison's disease as previously believed, a scholar says.
Jane Austen fans head to Philly
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Devotees of author Jane Austen are descending on Philadelphia for the 31st annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America.
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