Shitting on Something Else - Jane Austen Has Become An Alt-Right Icon, Somehow

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7. On a lighter Austen note, did you see the story about her creating fake news?

'Mischievous' Jane Austen faked Steventon marriage records

Novelist Jane Austen created fake entries in a marriage register linking herself with two separate men, it has emerged.

The Pride & Prejudice author is thought to have made the handwritten entries in the record book while a teenager in Hampshire in the late 18th Century.

Hampshire Archives, which holds the Steventon marriage register for 1755-1812, says Austen had access to the book because her father, George Austen, was the rector of the parish.
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It is not known whether either Fitzwilliam or Mortimer actually existed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-39330703