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Word Weavers: Jane Austen

Womanica

Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her novels which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry during the Regency era. She had a great influence on the first Oxford English Dictionary published in 1928 and is quoted over 1,600 times.

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Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. This month, we're

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talking about word weavers, people who coined terms, popularized words,

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and even created entirely new languages.

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These activists, writers, artists, and scholars used language to shape ideas and give voice

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to experiences that once had no name.

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If you've ever fantasized about walking through a foggy forest in Great Britain at the

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break of dawn, sweeping piano playing in the background as you merge paths with a dashing man

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in a waistcoat who walked all this way to confess his undying love for you, then you

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have today's womanican to think.

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