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Jane Austen - A Life by Claire Tomalin; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen - the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable, " a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her own life, unfailing bravery."--BOOK JACKET. "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, tragi-comic 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."--BOOK JACKET. "But it is in the deeply human portrait of Jane Austen herself that this biography excels. The honesty and directness of her personality (p

Who reads Jane Austen - A Life?

Author

Claire Tomalin; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf; Distributed by Random House

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679446286

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14