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How to catch a Darcy of your own This guide to finding love the Jane Austen way leaves Frances Wilson feeling like a wallflower

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050925
Author:Frances Wilson

WHICH Jane Austen character are you? Jane Bennet, who almost loses Mr Bingley because she hides from him how much she likes him? Her sister Elizabeth, who wins the ultimate score, Mr Darcy, just by being "herself''? Or perhaps you resemble most the youngest of the Bennet girls, flirtatious Lydia, who throws herself blindly at Wickham and subsequently comes to no good?

It's time to tear up the dating rulebooks girls, says Lauren Henderson in Jane Austen's Guide to Dating: our favourite novelist had it right all along. And while you're at it chuck out that egg- timer you've been told to keep by ...

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