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Robin Henry is a lifelong Jane Austen fan and Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach. Writers work with her to craft compelling fiction that readers crave.

See more of her writing about Jane Austen here and here.

Find more book reviews and posts about writing at https://readerly.net

Writing Lessons from Jane Austen: Cause and Effect in Pride and Prejudice
Image: a copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is open to the title page, surrounded by a teacup and dried roses.
While many 19th century novels have fallen by the wayside, Austen’s continual appeal may be understood in the way she ...
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Writing Lessons from Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility and Structure
Image: a clothbound edition of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is arranged with other books and dried flowers.
An in era of episodic adventure stories, Sense and Sensibility offered a novel with what modern readers would recognize as ...
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How to Read to Elevate Your Writing Practice
Image: a reader's hands hold a softcover book open. Some of the pages are flagged with sticky notes, including one on which the word "important" has been handwritten.
Reading like a writer, focusing on the craft and mechanics on the page, will offer insight to how beautiful and ...
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Writing Lessons from Jane Austen: Story Questions and Northanger Abbey
Image: a vintage, clothbound volume of Jane Austen's work in a bookshop in Oxford, UK.
As an early architect of the novel form, Austen’s use of a unifying thematic question contributed to the development of ...
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