Jane Austen fans are hardly wilting wallflowers but instead an avid array of people who dress up in period costumes and talk passionately about favorite books and miscellany from their beloved author despite it being nearly 200 years after her death. The first meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America was held in 1979 and attracted some 100 people to the Gramercy Park Hotel, writes ...
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