{"id":56786,"date":"2013-07-26T09:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=56786"},"modified":"2013-07-26T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:31:16","slug":"austen-ousts-darwin-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/26\/austen-ousts-darwin-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Austen Ousts Darwin, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austen-Bank-of-England-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austen-Bank-of-England-600.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Austen banknote\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austen-Bank-of-England-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Austen-Bank-of-England-600-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2013\/jul\/24\/jane-austen-appear-10-note\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Austen<\/a> is indeed replacing Darwin on the \u00a310 note.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Atwood has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/margaret-atwood-writes-her-first-opera-about-the-tragic-life-of-canadian-heroine-pauline-johnson-8730533.html\" target=\"_blank\">an opera<\/a>, fifteen years in development, about the poet Pauline Johnson.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/jul\/25\/roald-dahl-letters-published-2016\" target=\"_blank\">The letters of Roald Dahl<\/a>, spanning most of his life, will be published in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/25\/tracking-gatsby\/\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>, a \u201cchapter-by-chapter breakdown of the comings and goings of characters in the <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>,\u201d is lovely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Austen is indeed replacing Darwin on the \u00a310 note. 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