This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu in which she spent her life and which she describes so memorably in her novels. Her environment provided her with material ideally suited to her talents: accurate observation of character, wit, dramatic intuition, an ear for realistic dialogue and a highly disciplined formal sense. The author provides a study of Jane Austen's work, her letters, (which are quoted) and her period.
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Scholarly and immensely readable. -- New York Times Book Review
What makes this book special is the author's sympathy with her subject and the 137 charming black-and-white illustrations of just about every person, place and thing of importance in Austen's life and her novels, from the county in which she was born to the room in which she died. -- Victorian Decorating and Lifestyle, January 1999
What makes this book special is the author's sympathy with her subject and the 137 charming black-and-white illustrations of just about every person, place and thing of importance in Austen's life and her novels, from the county in which she was born to the room in which she died. -- Victorian Decorating and Lifestyle, January 1999
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A brief, readable biography with illustrations,
By The illustrations are a mixed bag. A number of them, surprisingly for a Thames and Hudson book, are of quite poor quality. A lot of them, however, are nicely reproduced contemporary or near-contemporary illustrations of places associated with Jane Austen. They are so nice, that although I read a library copy of this, I am considering it for my own collection just for the pictures. The poorly reproduced pictures are mostly portraits, which I generally have copies of in other books.
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A readable, illustrated, brief biography,
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This review is from: Jane Austen (Literary Lives Series) (Paperback)
This is a competent, readable, brief biography of Jane Austen. It is illustrated with 137 black-and-white illustrations. As a short biography, it is not on the level of Carol Shield's Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives), but perhaps the reader wants the illustrations and the slightly easier read. A title somewhat similar to this is England's Jane: The Story of Jane Austen (World Writers) by Juliane Poirier Locke; that is considered to be a juvenile, but I wouldn't scorn it for that. This book has a little more of the detail external to Jane's life--dates, people she knew, etc.
The illustrations are a mixed bag. A number of them, surprisingly for a Thames and Hudson book, are of quite poor quality. A lot of them, however, are nicely reproduced contemporary or near-contemporary illustrations of places associated with Jane Austen. They are so nice, that although I read a library copy of this, I am considering it for my own collection just for the pictures. The poorly reproduced pictures are mostly portraits, which I generally have copies of in other books. A reader interested in places JA is associated with would do well to look at The World of Jane Austen by Nigel Nicholson, a collection of photographs.
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