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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that you mention Austen OP.  Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney is eye opening about how Austen's own women author influences have been stripped from the canon.  Seems like deleting Austen from standard reading takes this even further.[/quote]

I think Austen is more popular now than when I was in high school in the 1980s.

I got a copy of Pride & Prejudice out of the Scholastic Books pamphlet when I was in 7th grade.  I read it but because I was a kid, I couldn't really appreciate the romantic nature of the plot.  I'd already read some Regency romances.  By comparison, not much action happens in an Austen romance.  It helps to be a grownup to understand the mores and restrained behavior.

That said, I don't remember anybody my age telling me they had read Austen for a high school class back then.

I think the high production values of more modern film and t.v. adaptations have helped spur more interest.  As well as derivatives like the Austenland properties and various published semi-derivative books by modern authors. [/quote]

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