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    Move over, Jane Austen

    Feb 07, 2021 3 minutes

    Once, the path from just another new television show to genuine phenomenon took some time. It took a couple of years for Game of Thrones to catch on and become the global hit and force in pop culture it was in its later seasons.

    But since all its first-season episodes arrived on Netflix at Christmas, – the risque, racially reinventive Regency drama based on the romance novels of US author Julia Quinn – has become an international sensation in just a few weeks. And one that has already spawned

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