Jane Austen

This volume offers an account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career, drawn largely from family letters and diaries.

Autorentext
Deirdre Le Faye has been actively researching the life and times of Jane Austen and her family for the last thirty years. In 1995 she prepared a completely new edition of Jane Austen's Letters. She has also written several other books: a short illustrated biography, Jane Austen (1998), Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin', the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide (2002), and Jane Austen: The World of her Novels (2002), as well as numerous articles in literary journals.

Klappentext
An account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career drawn largely from family letters and diaries.


Zusammenfassung
This account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career collects together all the documented facts concerning the novelist, illuminates her place within an affectionate and talented family group, and shows how she transformed the stuff of her life into six of the most popular novels in the English language.

Inhalt
Illustrations; Foreword Joan Impey; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes and Abbreviations; Chronology of Jane Austen's life; 1. Austens and Leighs, 160064; 2. Deane and Steventon, 1764; 3. India and France, 1752; 4. Childhood and Steventon, 1775; 5. Family Life, 1786; 6. First compositions, 1787; 7. The young Jane, 1792 8. Later years at Steventon, 1796 9. The Leigh-Perrots and Bath, 179901; 10. Bath and the West Country, 1801 11. Bath and Southampton, 1804 12. Southampton and Chawton, 1808 13. First publication, 1809; 14. Pride and Prejudice, 1813; 15. Mansfield Park and Emma, 1814; 16. Emma and Persuasion, 1816; 17. Biography, 1817 and after; References; Bibliography; Family pedigrees; Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen.

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