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Today it seems that when it comes to historical revisionism, nothing is sacred.

Anything can be reworked to fit a modernist perspective. Take for example what feminists have done with Jane Austen's work, which

include her masterpieces, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. Less than a decade ago, modern authors were

asked to participate in the Austin Project, which was an invitation for six individuals to update Austin's most popular novels.

One can hardly think of a more banal soul-destroying exercise, and yet someone thought it was a good idea.

One such author was Curtis Sittenfield, who described task of rewriting

pride and prejudice in an article for The Guardian. Quote, as a novelist, I wanted to illustrate

that there is no longer just one version of Happily Ever After. A woman can marry a man and have

children with him. She can also marry a woman or no one, and she can

eschew or embrace motherhood regardless of her romantic status. Sitonfield changed Elizabeth Bennett's

name to a much more butch, Liz, added fornication between her and Darcy, no longer Mr. Darcy,

and has them meeting while out jogging,

at which point Liz suggests they engage in hate sex. We'll spare you any further details,

but you get the point. The aim is to rework a traditional masterpiece into an absolutely disgusting

slop of feminist nonsense. While modern feminists have long tried to

remake Austin in their own image, readers of the originals find something altogether different when

reading her. In Emma, for example, we find that the main character Emma is put in her place by the

very strong, masculine character

of Mr. Knightley. In fact, Knightley wins Emma not by giving way to her haughty spirit, but by

correcting her, and quite often. He is one of her few friends who will speak plainly to her

about her vanity. After a picnic outing in which Emma embarrasses an elderly and impoverished

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