The Life of Jane Austen - Softcover

Halperin, Professor John

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ISBN 10: 0801834104 ISBN 13: 9780801834103

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

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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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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 the Author:

John Halperin is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of Trollope and Politics, Gissing: A Life in Books, C. P. Snow: An Oral Biography, Jane Austen's Lovers, Novelists in their Youth, and Eminent Georgians.

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