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The one Jane Austen scene people are still arguing about

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Frances O’Connor and Jonny Lee Miller in Patricia Rozema’s 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. | MGM+ There’s a bizarrely opaque, oddly modern question hovering over the legacy of Jane Austen. And despite centuries of debate, scholars still haven’t been able to figure out how to answer it. Jane Austen lived under the rule of a slave-trading empire. What did she think about that? And if we could figure out what someone so smart and morally conscious thought about life in a colonizing power, what would that tell us about how ordinary people make their peace with living with an atrocity?...

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