Critics tend to see this "romantic image" as a failing of the ironic Austen, says Professor Todd.
Austen analyzes these foundational concepts in examples too numerous and systematic to be considered incidental.
The 200th anniversary of the first publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Jane Austen, John F Kennedy and Osama bin Laden are all thought to have been affected.
First published by Thomas Egerton in 1813, Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen's second novel.
Nobody else quite does this, and no other book of Jane Austen's does it either.
After all, Jane Austen wrote her gothic parody, Northanger Abbey, almost 200 years ago.
Ah well, critics can be wrong, as Jane Austen's innumerable, adoring fans would happily testify.
Jane Austen's sister, Cassandra, destroyed all the letters she and Jane had exchanged.
It also influenced some of the biggest names in literature, such as Jane Austen and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
"We have fewer details about Jane Austen's life than we do about Shakespeare or Chaucer, " he says.
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Austen's stories are those of the middle class, the gentry, and not the upper class, the aristocracy.
His older daughter, Aubrey, attends college in south Florida, and his younger daughter Austen, is in high school.
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The Jane Austen Centre has about 60, 000 visitors per year, and an estimated 80% of them are women.
But Hilton freely confesses his love of her work and says Austen has a false reputation simply as "posh, romantic fiction".
Jane Austen was born in Hampshire in 1775 and died, at the age of 41, in 1817 in Winchester.
James said it had been "a joy" to immerse herself in Austen's world.
The unearthed foundations show the house to be most like the one published in the memoirs of Austen's nephew.
The area also includes the site of Jane Austen's school and Reading Gaol.
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"Jane Austen said that every woman wants to find their Darcy, " says Chadha.
In July Jane Austen devotees will visit such sites as the Vyne, a 16th-century English estate where Austen attended balls.
So many people have written about Jane Austen that there might seem to be no room for yet another life.
Finally, Austen explores new applications, arguing, for example, that strategizing together in a partnership is the surest foundation for intimate relationships.
Crime writer PD James is to publish a novel that puts murder at the heart of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Maybe Austen was simply very shrewd in her choice of subject, says Gill Hornby, author of Jane Austen: The Girl with the Magic Pen.
Spare me that guff about "The New Austen", I've seen episodes of Coronation Street that are more densely plotted than this.
It was due to be named "Pies and Prejudice" in honour of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's novel.
Forget the usual discussions about quantum theory or the novels of Jane Austen and stick to just two questions: are you local?
This comedic play is like a dramatic fruit salad of Jane Austen.
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