The annual Jane Austen festival in Bath, 2008. Jane Austen was born today in 1775. Her work has most recently been revived through a series of horror mash-ups of her novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is being made into a feature film.
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Phoebe Connelly is a former web editor of the Prospect. Previously, she was managing editor of In These Times. She writes on political culture, human rights and feminism.
