<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:40:11 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/jane-austen/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Austen did NOT write 'romance novels'! Her writing is deliberately unsentimental and realistic and she explored many controversial themes. She is a genius of satire, humour and thorough intellect. | By Leysa Flores]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jane Austen’s work is predominantly anti-romantic and anti-sentimental. To be romantic is to have an idealised view of reality1, and to be sentimental is to move away from rational thought or to be or]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/creativecoin/@leysa/jane-austen-did-not-write-romance-novels-her-writing-is-deliberately-unsentimental-and-realistic-and-she-explored-many</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/creativecoin/@leysa/jane-austen-did-not-write-romance-novels-her-writing-is-deliberately-unsentimental-and-realistic-and-she-explored-many</guid><category><![CDATA[creativecoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[leysa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:03:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/D5zH9SyxCKd9jk2Nf3LCCG39zKZWFeP4Ji5X1SPwjQKzh7YMV3oryA8JM54R9HXLLoA9Vof69FvSd4L66FVVoynyCxayTFz5WLnogAEV3D76aD4DSyL3u785guos3aPZ4YQdug?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Austen wrote to advance realism in fiction, as revealed in her letters to her niece, Anna Austen Lefroy | by Leysa Flores]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image: Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, pencil and watercolour, circa 1810, NPG 3630 © National Portrait Gallery, London In the comments of another post the other day, I discovered a fellow Steemian is]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/creativecoin/@leysa/jane-austen-wrote-to-advance-realism-in-fiction-as-revealed-in-her-letters-to-her-niece-anna-austen-lefroy-or-by-leysa-flores</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/creativecoin/@leysa/jane-austen-wrote-to-advance-realism-in-fiction-as-revealed-in-her-letters-to-her-niece-anna-austen-lefroy-or-by-leysa-flores</guid><category><![CDATA[creativecoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[leysa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 00:18:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/23KQwnti57stuXpnvnU2D4w5Hhi3Micu1ZRCk7Tjiao4xBwLYzD8UGf2ap5ZDPGK5MTGP66X9gUgyFDSpWryqKK92Uu17Ae?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense and Sensibility and Werewolves]]></title><description><![CDATA[Though he was "ill" during the full moon, he still needed to complete his summer reading list. Please accept this as an idea, people who made Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and hire me as a]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/jane-austen/@improv/sense-and-sensibility-and-werewolves</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/jane-austen/@improv/sense-and-sensibility-and-werewolves</guid><category><![CDATA[jane-austen]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[improv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:11:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/AmRc67RgYaWVEa5TxnoPRiGMS1Ae6MyfiK8oyuudtYxRdf3VRJKrsDKsCWmxTvsEJ8Au2U2UMgG38gQtAK21PuZTA5nCFRbd7BkXt654KTySsnMMcdx5d9cF34SeGTujpxFGDVYMCzCRcDzPXMzpArM1yeQMLGwx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Literary Genius Be Graphed?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I read an interesting article in the New York Times, titled “The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures,” that explains the results of research done by Stanford Literary Lab. This lab applies]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@ghasemkiani/can-literary-genius-be-graphed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@ghasemkiani/can-literary-genius-be-graphed</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[ghasemkiani]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:49:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP55dVCfEtVwLMAEJ3HYbRkfdWRyxDgvQg4STF3KeKzN2owuyNKLLYTikN2Lnc5KA191JrYJH9DTZUcSW7NgehvbYVnbjqzJZHsP9TZ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>