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3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views

  • Written by Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English, Arizona State University
3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own viewsMore than 200 years after her death, Jane Austen's views on slavery remain unclear.Jim Dyson/Getty Images

More than two centuries after Jane Austen died in 1817, many of the English novelist’s fans want to know her takes on her day’s big issues, including race, colonialism and slavery.

Vigorous debates continue about what she may have...

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