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Jane Austen : A Life Paperback - 1999
by Tomalin, Claire
- Used
Providing detailed and absorbing accounts of Jane Austen's friendships and travels, Tomalin shatters the myth of the novelist as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. of illustrations. Map.
Description
Details
- Title Jane Austen : A Life
- Author Tomalin, Claire
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date April 27, 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP98443623
- ISBN 9780679766766 / 0679766766
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.26 x 0.85 in (20.35 x 13.36 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Austen, Jane, Novelists, English - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036887
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the publisher
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The world she wrote about--that place of civility and reassuring stability--was never quite her own. As Tomalin shows, Jane Austen's family existed on the very fringe of the world she described in her fiction, struggling to get ahead with little money and no land in the competitive society of Georgian England, sometimes succeeding but often failing with painful consequences. New research in family papers has yielded a rich, tragicomic picture of the Austen clan--their ambitions, their matrimonial alliances, their exotic connections with India and France. At the same time, Tomalin's explorations in local archives reveal a surprising view of the neighbors the family lived among in Hampshire, more extravagant and eccentric by far than anyone depicted in Austen's books. We realize how much closer her genius lies, in its splendid artifice, to the great comic operas of Mozart than to the main tradition of the English novel.
But it is in the deeply human portrait of Jane Austen herself that this biography excels. The honesty and directness of her personality (perfect heroines made her "sick and wicked"), her strength ingiving up a chance at marriage to follow the path her vocation as a writer required her to take, the warmth and long consistency of her relationship with her sister, Cassandra, the poignancy of her death--Claire Tomalin here captures, with unforgettable skill, the living character of a great writer who is read, reread, read again, and adored, now more than ever.
"From the Hardcover edition.
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 07/01/2004, Page 130
- New York Times, 05/30/1999, Page 24