Jane Austen’s most dramatic moments emmaAnd, arguably, in his entire oeuvre, there is nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’s proposal occupies little space. The scene in the gardens outside Hartfield becomes hilarious when Knightley talks to Emma about her desperate, unquenchable longing, and then Austin writes “What did
Jane Yolen in 1989. Denver Post/AP hide caption toggle caption Denver Post/AP Author Jane Yolen published an astonishing number of books in her lifetime – more than 450. He died last week at his home in Hatfield, Mass., at the age of 87. Her residence there marked the beginning of a career in which Yolen
Jane Yolen, a children’s author who wrote about 450 books in practically every imaginable genre, including history, how-to, science fiction and poetry, and whose immensely popular children’s books, rich in folklore and fantasy, earned her the nickname “America’s Hans Christian Andersen,” died Thursday at her home in Hatfield, a town in western Massachusetts. She was