Jane Austen

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today's episode is on the English writer Jane Austen. Join us as we discuss whether Jane was queer, on-stage lesbian Mr Darcy, and the evolving queerness of Austen adaptations. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image: sketch of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra Austen, c.1810 - source.]

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0:00.0	Hello, listeners.
0:01.1	Just a quick message before this episode begins.
0:03.7	This episode was originally a bonus episode, which our patrons enjoyed last year.
0:07.7	For some personal reasons, the episode we planned to release today has been delayed,
0:11.1	but we hope you enjoy this one instead.
0:13.2	Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:18.6	My name is Eli.
0:19.7	I'm Irene.
0:20.6	I'm Alice.
0:21.5	And today we're talking about the late 18th to early 19th century English novelist Jane Austen.
0:34.4	I'd like to acknowledge the Wondry Wurong people of the Koolin Nation as the traditional
0:39.0	owners of the land on which this podcast is recorded and pay my respects to their elders
0:43.3	past and present.
0:44.8	They are the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:48.6	We have some content warnings before we start this episode.
0:51.3	The episode will contain brief mentions of sex and masturbation,
0:55.3	a discussion of hypothetical incest, and one homophobic slur. It will also include general,
1:00.8	periodical and modern sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and acephobia. So if any of that is
1:06.2	something that you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this one. I wanted to briefly touch on our sources.
1:12.0	There isn't one biography or a few biographies that I relied on heavily, so I don't need to go
1:17.0	into any one Jane Austen scholar's personal quirks and biases, as we sometimes do. I did want to
1:23.3	note because the biography part of this episode is actually quite short. Effectively what I did
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