Elizabeth Kantor, author of The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, explains: “Romanticism was an intellectual fad when ...
And what emerges from all this is a more interesting Jane Austen – an author better read, better educated and better informed than we have been given reason to suppose.’ Brian Southam Source: Jane ...
A set of five first-edition Jane Austen novels could sell for more than £100,000 at auction. The books were bought by a UK-based private collector in the 1970s and 1980s for about £5,000.
Cook, Daniel 2023. Austen After 200. p. 35. Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786 1945 is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen s novels. It discusses Austen s own ideas about books and readers, ...
Jane Austen is a name synonymous with witty social commentary and timeless tales of love. But it was Hampshire, with its rolling hills and vibrant society, that was her muse. From her birthplace ...
Several books about her life and times will be published. A television show, “Miss Austen”, examining Jane’s relationship with her sister, Cassandra, will air on PBS in America and the BBC ...
Austen and her sister were as close as Jane and Elizabeth Bennett. In Pride and Prejudice, the relationship between the two sisters is central to the novel. In real life, Jane was very close to ...