"The world is overrun with manuals positively chock full of garbage advice about love and life. You could do much, much worse than a spot of guidance from Jane Austen."
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Jezebel "What are we to learn from Austen's brand of feminism? Nothing more or less than this: that feminist ideas mean very very little in the abstract, for they still require a strategy to make them work in the world... Jane Austen needed to be a feminist in action just to be a feminist in print. We are quite free to be feminists in print, but we must follow her activist example if we are ever to be feminists in fact."
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Huffington Post "This cute, feminist dating guide is sweet and fun, and for any lit-lover with a sense of humor and an active Tinder account, this is a cute gift to add to the pile."
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Bustle, Gifts for Book Lovers "[A] witty, brief new guide... Certainly, there is infinite wisdom to be culled from Austen."
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Flavorwire "Murphy compiles all of the attributes readers love in Austen's heroines into one helpful guide for navigating the dating world... For women everywhere who long for a Jane Austen romance,
The Jane Austen Rules shares a formula for a love story."
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Deseret News "Ms. Murphy has done an excellent job of blending light-hearted charm with reflections on the serious business of love and life."
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AustenProse "A new book that tears apart the myths created by toxic dating guides...Couldn't agree more."
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Evening Standard's Londoners Diary (UK) "The key to dating in today's day and age can be summed up with one essential question: What would Jane Austen do?...Sweet and to the point, this volume makes for an enjoyable and useful read."
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Publishers Weekly "A delightful mashup of Jane Austen and
The Rules, this modern guide to romance is pure stout-hearted charm."
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Amy Dickinson, advice columnist "Ask Amy" and NPR contributor
What´s a strong, independent-minded woman supposed to do in a world of insipid dating guides? Sinéad Murphy responds by asking: Who has more time-tested secrets than Jane Austen, whose novels continue to captivate us almost two hundred years later?