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13 February 2006

Searching for Mr. Frank Churchill

Filed under: Jane in the News — Mags @ 12:57 am

The heathens do tend to take Jane’s name in vain when Valentine’s Day approaches…an article about Internet dating contained the following:

For social anthropologist Kate Fox, the growing use of the Internet is almost a return to the days of Jane Austen and good old-fashioned courtships carried out by correspondence.

Of course, all good Janeites know that the only couples who could correspond were those already engaged.

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