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Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron - full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300232219
eBay Product ID (ePID)237204392
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameJane Austen: a Brief Life
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArchaeology, Zoology
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorFiona Stafford
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height215 mm
Item Weight290 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorFiona Stafford