Christmas barely registers in Jane Austen’s novels: Only three of them— Emma , Mansfield Park , and Persuasion —include true Christmas-time scenes.   Still, the holiday comes in for occasional mentions in the other three novels as well, and nowhere more amusingly than in Northanger Abbey , when the insincere and self-absorbed Isabella Thorpe, newly engaged to Catherine Morland’s brother James, recalls the delights of the previous year’s noel:   “You are so like your dear brot

In her lifetime, Jane Austen may not have been as famous and revered as she deserved to be. But in death, she’s making up for lost time.   Case in point: The BBC’s talk-radio programming schedule for the next two weeks, which looks, if you squint, like All Austen, All The Time .   The soft opening took place back in early November, with the Radio 4 broadcast of a new two-part adaptation of Northanger Abbey.  Over the weekend, the channel’s digital counterpart, Radio 4Extra, a

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