Jane Austen: Her Life

Park Honan

ISBN 10: 1904435815 / ISBN 13: 9781904435815

Published by Little Books, 2008

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Title: Jane Austen: Her Life

Publisher: Little Books

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Edition: F First English Edition.

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In this sympathetic and probing biography, Park Honan enters the private world of Jane Austen to reveal experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey". Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters written by members of the Austen family, Professor Honan recreates Austen's childhood, sketches her devotion to her ambitious parents and draws a lively picture of Jane's two brothers, one of whom served with Nelson's navy at Trafalgar, and of Jane's closest confidante, her elder sister Cassandra. Set against a backdrop of rural Hampshire and Bath, Honan's life of Austen moves between closely observed domestic life with family and friends, to descriptions of dances and parties, social mores and malice. It brings new insights into her chequered love life, her moments of loneliness and frustration and her ironic appreciation of her situation as an intelligent, economically dependent woman.