Jane Austen: Her Life - Hardcover

Honan, Park

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312014511 ISBN 13: 9780312014513

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1988

Synopsis

A profile of Jane Austen offers new insights into her private world and her literary reputation, revealing the experiences and observations upon which she drew to produce such masterpieces as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Northanger Abbey"

About this title

About the Author:

Park Honan cosponsors the Jane Austen London Group and has won many awards including a Guggenheim fellowship. His previous books include Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy, Matthew Arnold: A Life, and Shakespeare: A Life.

From Publishers Weekly:

This new biography of the author of Pride and Prejudice, etc., by University of Leeds (England) professor Honan is aptly subtitled, for it concentrates in a major way on the novelist's personal and family life at Steventon, Bath, Chawton and, finally, Winchester, with full treatment of the writings given only in the Chawton period. The study is based on extensive research into the large quantity of Austen and Leigh family manuscripts: letters, poems, diaries. Thus a detailed and winning portrait emerges of Austen and her relationships with friends and family, especially her sister Cassandra. New material includes a wry account of the novelist's very brief engagement in 1802 to the well-to-do but unprepossessing Harris Bigg-Wither, six years her junior, as she accepted and then rejected the offer of social and financial security. Honan shows clearly yet subtly the people and events that were transmuted into drily humorous, quietly ironic masterpieces of English fiction. Illustrations.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0312014511
• ISBN 13: 9780312014513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452