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NadaSaadaoui
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PhD candidate in English Literature @ Uni of Cumbria | Researching walking in Jane Austen’s landscapes, Romanticism & women’s writing (18th–19th c.)
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In 1841, 25 years after Jane Austen's death, Cassandra Austen burned nearly all of her sister’s letters. Why did she do it?

That mystery – and many others – drives Jane Austen’s Paper Trail.

Listen to the trailer now.

The first episode launches on 4 November.

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Introducing Jane Austen’s Paper Trail – a new podcast from The Conversation
Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series marking 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
How Jane Austen’s landscapes mapped women’s lives
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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‘Austen’s mapped worlds remind us that geography is never neutral. It shapes choices, relationships and power’. Her novels ask a question still urgent today: ‘where, and how freely, can women move?’ Another superb piece in @uk.theconversation.com by my doctoral student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social 📚🍃
October 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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I am absolutely thrilled with the cover design of my new book on Beatrix Potter. Forthcoming with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social in early January, the book is now available to pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/az-of-bea...
August 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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In this new article @uk.theconversation.com my wonderful PhD student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social
offers a powerful case for Elizabeth Bennet as Jane Austen's best heroine: one who 'demands respect, not rescue' & defies 'social expectations to forge her own path’ theconversation.com/who-was-jane...
August 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Heather on Holme Fell
August 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Delighted to contribute to The Conversation UK’s Jane Austen Fight Club series alongside a brilliant group of scholars! I’m championing the sharp, independent Elizabeth Bennet as Austen’s best heroine 💪📚

Read the full piece and cast your vote: lnkd.in/eEepFUxt

#JaneAusten250 #ElizabethBennet
Who was Jane Austen’s best heroine? These experts think they know
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
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August 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Introducing Jane Austen Fight Club! Over the next few weeks, academic experts will go head to head arguing for Austen's best leading man, heroine and novel. But the winner is up to you. Check out our first instalment and vote for your fave Austen heartthrob here: theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
Jane Austen fight club: experts go head-to-head arguing for her best leading man
The winner is down to you!
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August 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Fantastic contribution to the #JaneAusten250 series by my brilliant supervisor @DrPennyBradshaw. Thoughtful and compelling defence of Mr Darcy and a brilliant reminder that Austen’s heroines helped redefine what makes a true romantic hero.
Very pleased to have been able to voice my support for Mr Darcy in this newly published article in @uk.conversation.com
on Jane Austen's best leading man. Voting is now open! 📚: theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
#JaneAusten250
Jane Austen fight club: experts go head-to-head arguing for her best leading man
The winner is down to you!
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August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Article in The Guardian on seaside towns features a lovely section on Millom and Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson's connections to the town: Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #LiteraryLandscapes #Poetry&Place
Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion
Ayr, Bangor and Millom routinely bring up the rear in coastal town polls, but they offer a calmer alternative to the brash traditional seaside resorts
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August 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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'With busy eyes I pierced the lane
In quest of known and unknown things,'

🖊 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on my sick-bed' (1832)

🖼 Ursula Hurst
July 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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In an age where walking is once again praised for its physical and mental benefits, #JaneAusten's fiction reminds us that these virtues are not new. Her characters have been walking for centuries.

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✍️Nada Saadaoui

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July 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but @devoney.bsky.social puts that myth to rest. Tracing the author's life and legacy across 250 years, she reveals an Austen far wilder than the one we know.

Publishing to mark Austen's 250th birthday, pre-order now! #JaneAusten #booksky
June 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen adaptations come in generational waves. The 2020s have produced 'Sanditon,' 'Emma,' and 'Persuasion,' with 'Pride & Prejudice' on the way. Now 'Sense & Sensibility' is too.
Daisy Edgar-Jones to Star as Elinor Dashwood in New 'Sense & Sensibility'
We have officially entered the next Jane Austen era, as Focus Features announces production of a new film adaptation of Sense & Sensibility, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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9pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR

The Real Jane Austen

Drama-documentary about the life of #JaneAusten. Anna Chancellor, a relative of Jane Austen, explores the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions.

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BBC One - The Real Jane Austen
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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It soon appeared that London was not the place for her. She could not endure its noise. Her nerves were under continual irritation and suffering;
#JaneAusten #Emma
February 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I assure you that I dread the idea of going to Brighton as much as you do, but I am not without hopes that something may happen to prevent it.
#JaneAusten #letters #1799
May 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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It had been excessively hot the whole day…
#JaneAusten #letters1811
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to see this excellent piece by our MA graduate and now PhD student, Nada Saadaoui, on walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen and her heroines, published in ‘The Conversation’ today: theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...
June 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM