The Life of Jane Austen - Hardcover

Halperin, Professor John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801823358 ISBN 13: 9780801823350

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Drawing extensively on Austen's correspondence, this biography--the first full-length biography to appear since Elizabeth Jenkins's "Jane Austen" of 1938--draws in detail a rich psychological portrait of the novelist that illuminates the genesis and the substance of her works

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Review:

"Halperin teases his Jane as he admires her, and by being so completely from another world does indeed makes us see her in a different way. He takes her right out of the incestuous love or hate embrace in which Janeites and anti- Janeites have concealed her so long. That is quite an accomplishment." -- John Bayley, New York Review of Books

"A fine contribution to Austen studies, for the details of her life, sound appraisals of her books, and identification of the many autobiographical elements in them." -- Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal

Book Description:

Making fuller use of Austen's correspondence than previous biographers, Halperin shows us the costs exacted on a sensitive and critical personality by a society--and, frequently, a family--that paid too little attention to the predicament of unmarried women, especially those with inadequate financial means.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0801823358
• ISBN 13: 9780801823350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416