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Jane Austen Janet Todd

Jane Austen By Janet Todd

Jane Austen by Janet Todd


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Summary

Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels, from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa.

Jane Austen Summary

Jane Austen by Janet Todd

Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels, from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa.

Chapters on each of her novels run throughout the book and place them in the context of her life. This volume draws on archives for a truly insightful view of the author, reproducing rare and fascinating documents from her personal archives, including early manuscripts, a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels, a letter from Jane's father to the publisher Thomas Cadell, which was returned to the family with the words Rejected by return of post written on it, and pages from the unfinished manuscript of Sanditon.

For over 200 years, the novels of Jane Austen have been loved and celebrated across a diverse international readership. From her playful digs at the ridiculous to her examination of the strengths and weaknesses of humanity, she shows an insight into human behaviour, arguably unparalleled by any other novelist, that is as relevant today as when her novels were first published.

About Janet Todd

Janet Todd is an authority on literature and culture of the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida and was Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen University. As President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she ran a festival of women writers and established the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She is also the General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, the first modern and fully annotated edition of the works of Jane Austen. She is a well-respected author of 38 books, including fiction and biographies of women in literature. Her recent books include Aphra Behn: A Secret Life (Fascinating scholarship - the New York Times) and her memoir Radiation Diaries (Frank, wry and unexpectedly heartening - Hilary Mantel.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Early Life * Early Writings * 'Lady Susan' * Northanger Abbey * Loves * 'The Watsons' * Chawton * The Professional Author * Sense & Sensibility * Two Heroines: Elinor and Marianne * Chawton * Pride & Prejudice * Man of Property: Darcy and Pemberley * War and Peace * Mansfield Park * Licence and Restraint: The Moral World of Mansfield Park * Emma * Emma's First Readers * Persuasion * A Romantic Novel * 'Sanditon' * Death * The Cult of Austen.

Additional information

GOR011890857
9780233006062
0233006060
Jane Austen by Janet Todd
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Welbeck Publishing Group
20190905
160
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