Remember when you had to write a report in English class, and you had to turn in your notes and outline? It probably looked something like this: Jane Austen: A History I. Childhood     1. Born December 16, 1775     2. Seven siblings     3. Father Rev. George Austen     4. Mother Cassandra II. Major Works     1. Sense and Sensibility         A. First novel         B. Bestseller C. And on and on... You may have thought it was the most boring and pointless exercise ever concocted. Next to calculating the angles of an isosceles triangle, anyway. But it … [Read more...]