Synonyms for austen
ˈɔ stənausten

Princeton's WordNet

1. Austen, Jane Austennoun

   English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)

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1. Mark Twain:

   Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

2. Inger Brodey:

   Jane Austen is a way for today's readers to both romanticize about soul mates and also sustain their self-respect.

3. Shauna Lynch:

   Jane Austen died much too young, i think that Jane Austen early death seems such a waste that admirers of the novels can't help but try to explain it ; obviously, for some people, the more dramatic the explanation the better.

4. Joel Kim Booster:

   There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.

5. Devoney Looser:

   I'd say I find any adaptation of Jane Austen to be a successful one if it gets me thinking, or rethinking, any parts of the original.