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The Heritage Village Museum Center is hosting a Jane Austen festival to commemorate 250 years since the British novelist was born.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg describes the opening sentence to Pride and Prejudice as a "masterpiece of indirection" that is frequently repurposed, but whose irony is never matched.

How a 19th century female novelist became a global phenomenon 200 years after her death, and how Jane Austen’s ambition and creative genius contributed…