All the documented facts concerning the novelist are collected in this detailed account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career. Her role within an affectionate and talented family group is described in the Austens' own words, showing how Jane was valued as daughter, sister, aunt and friend. The book demonstrates how Jane transformed the details of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside, along with the wartime careers of her brothers, into six novels that are among the most popular in the English language.
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'Indispensable ... it is impossible to overestimate the value of this book.' The Jane Austen Society Newsletter
'Clear and quick-witted, this biography offers insights into Jane's personality and her relationships with her family and acquaintances ... Not to be missed.' Good Book Guide
'Clear and quick-witted, this biography offers insights into Jane's personality and her relationships with her family and acquaintances ... Not to be missed.' Good Book Guide
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This detailed account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career collects together all the documented facts concerning the novelist, and illuminates her place within an affectionate and talented family group. Many of the facts are given in the Austens' own words; they show how Jane was valued as daughter, sister, aunt and friend, and how she transformed the stuff of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside, together with the wartime careers of her brothers, into the six novels that are among the most popular in the English language.
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A literate, entertaining, complete, and unsentimentalized account of Jane Austen and her family, nuclear and extended. The Austens and the Leighs (Jane's mother's family) were both numerous and well-connected; their relationships are detailed in an unequalled series of family trees. Ms. Le Faye has written about Jane Austen many times, and knows her stuff. If I were limited to one source of information on Miss Austen, A Family Record is the one I'd pick.
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I love Jane Austen, her letters, novels and most of the biographies. This was the last bio I read and it answered just about all my questions about Jane Austen. Deirdre Le Faye is the BEST Jane Austen information source.
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Jane Austen's paternal ancestry can be traced back with reasonable certainty to a William Astyn who lived in Yalding, a village in the Weald of Kent, and who died in 1522. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Austen, James Edward, Mansfield Park, Mary Lloyd, Aunt Cassandra, James Austen, Mary Gibson, Madam Lefroy, Great House, Henry Austen, Miss Austen, Phylly Walter, Warren Hastings, Edward Cooper, Family Record, Revd Thomas Leigh, George Austen, Jane Cooper, New Year, West Country, Eliza de Feuillide, Lord Craven, Martha Lloyd, Miss Chapman, Northanger Abbey New!
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Jane Austen's paternal ancestry can be traced back with reasonable certainty to a William Astyn who lived in Yalding, a village in the Weald of Kent, and who died in 1522. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jane Austen, James Edward, Mansfield Park, Mary Lloyd, Aunt Cassandra, James Austen, Mary Gibson, Madam Lefroy, Great House, Henry Austen, Miss Austen, Phylly Walter, Warren Hastings, Edward Cooper, Family Record, Revd Thomas Leigh, George Austen, Jane Cooper, New Year, West Country, Eliza de Feuillide, Lord Craven, Martha Lloyd, Miss Chapman, Northanger Abbey New!
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- Pride and Prejudice (World's Classics) by Jane Austen on 34 pages
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen on 22 pages
- Volume the Third by Jane Austen on 9 pages
- Jane Austen's The History of England by Jane Austen on 8 pages
- Emma and Persuasion (Critical Studies, Penguin) by Roger Gard on 5 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Edward Copeland on 13 pages
- Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Edward Copeland on 4 pages
- Catharine: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen on 4 pages
- Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography by Hermione Lee on 4 pages
- Recreating Jane Austen by John Wiltshire on page 15, page 23, and Back Matter
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