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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
David Barnett

OMG! It’s Jane Austen... the TikTok generation embraces new heroine

Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice.
Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice. Photograph: Maximum Film/Alamy

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.

This weekend, 210 years after the publication of the second of her six novels, Austen’s work is providing as much enjoyment as ever – and to a younger audience than the author probably ever dreamed of.

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