'Sexist' Jane Austen novel too upsetting for stude…

'Sexist' Jane Austen novel too upsetting for stude…

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'Sexist' Jane Austen novel too upsetting for stude…

University bosses have slapped a trigger warning on Jane Austen's classic novel Northanger Abbey because of its “gender stereotypes”.

The 1817 novel about a young woman's coming of age in Regency Britain has been deemed potentially upsetting by academics at the University of Greenwich.

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