A portrait of Jane Austen

Cecil, David

ISBN 10: 0094624003 / ISBN 13: 9780094624009

Published by Constable & Co., London UK., 1978

About this Item

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON AUTHOR SIGNED COPY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978 * Publisher: Constable.& Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dark grey cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. Bump to top front corner, no rubs, no other visible faults. VG.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a young lady in Regency costume. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £6.95. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. (in clear un-attached archival jacket). VG.* Contents condition: Ex school-library copy with usual neat stamps and labels. Coloured end-papers (dark grey). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, slight spotting to edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 203 pp. text. vi pp. illustration acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Lord David Cecil, the younger son of the 4th. Marquess of Salisbury, was born in 1902 and educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford. His overall knowledge of literature and history makes for a well-informed examination of one of our best writers. This book is intended neither as a straightforward biographical narrative of Jane Austen's life, nor as a critical study of her as an author, but rather, as Lord David writes, "an attempt with the aid of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people's memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art."* A NEAR VG+ "AUTHOR SIGNED," ex school-library copy with minor age and wear reducing it to VG. Dust jacket VG. (Now in clear un-attached protective film cover).*.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A portrait of Jane Austen
• Publisher: Constable & Co., London UK.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0094624003
• ISBN 13: 9780094624009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: VG+/VG/VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Not much about Jane Austen's personality can be gleaned from her works.It is from her letters, from the evidence of the friends and relations, and above all from a knowledge of the kind of life led and ideas held by the society she was born into, that we are to know her.

About the Author

Lord David Cecil CH, Hon LLD, D Litt (1902-1986) was Goldsmith Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. He is the author of many books on 19th century literature, including THE YOUNG MELBOURNE and LORD M, THE STRICKEN DEER and HARDY AS A NOVELIST.