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With 2025 being the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth Ellen Howley Assistant Professor at the School of English, DCU talks to Dearbhail about the writer’s impact on the world of the romcom from films to television, her legacy and endurance and why we are still beguiled by her words.