Thursday, August 08, 2013

Jane Austen’s Most Famous Trolls, Critics, and Doubters

    By Michelle Dean on

 
Jane Austen's Most Famous Trolls, Critics, and Doubters

 
 
 
 
                          
Such is the modern state of affairs that if you successfully argue that they should put Jane Austen’s face on a British ten-pound note, you will find yourself subject to rape, bomb, and death threats on the Internet. That’s what happened in the last little while to a British feminist who took up the cause, and everyone who swiftly came to her defense. And now, as a result, we are looking at the inauguration of a Twitter “report abuse” button which pretty much everyone points out is going to be a mess to administer. It’s all very baffling. … Read More 

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