Starting around 1870 and still going strong, the Janites are Austen obsessives whose practices now govern online fan culture.

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Janeites feel free to speak of fictional characters—Miss Bates, Elinor Dashwood, etc.—as though they are real people. (Furthermore, according to latter-day Janeite Ted Scheinman, they speak of Austen herself with “the proprietary vim of a family member.”)

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