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Lucy Thompson

Wolverhampton
As seen in: Medium, Color Research & Application, Wiley Online Library, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, PLOS Biology, PLOS ONE, Frontiers, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, MDPI and
Former reporter at the Express & Star and copywriter. Public sector press turned civil service comms manager. Black Country bird up north ⬆
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Jane Austen’s world ran on gossip - and she revelled in it Original

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By Anna Walker , Jane Wright , Andrew McInnes, Katherine Halsey, Lucy Thompson
| The Conversation
Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading Austen researchers. Along the way we’ll visit locations important to Austen to uncover a particular aspect of her life and the times she lived in. As well as a sharp eye and an even sharper wit, Jane Austen was also, at times, in possession of a sharp tongue.
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From Dining Halls to Descartes

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By Lucy Thompson
| Medium
I chose to study Philosophy because the very first time I encountered it — back in school, reading Descartes’ Meditations — I was struck by how different it felt from anything I’d read before. Here was someone pulling apart reality itself, doubting even the ground beneath his feet, and I remember feeling electrified by the idea that thinking could be this radical. From that moment, philosophy became the subject I wanted to dedicate myself to. That’s why I went to university to study it.
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What was Jane Austen’s best novel? These experts think they know

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By Lucy Thompson
| Inkl
Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s most quietly radical novel. As her first published work, it may be less polished than her later fiction, but it is no less incisive. It lays bare the emotional cost of living in a world governed by reputation, family obligation and gendered expectation. Excluded from inheritance and displaced from their home, the Dashwood sisters must navigate constant scrutiny.
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