Deirdre Le Faye, Deirdre Le Faye

Jane Austen

A Family Record

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of Jane Austen's life, background and literary career drawn largely from family letters and diaries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521534178
• ISBN-10: 0521534178
• Artikelnr.: 21516452

Autorenporträt

Deirdre Le Faye has been actively researching the life and times of Jane Austen and her family for the last thirty years. In 1995 she prepared a completely new edition of Jane Austen's Letters. She has also written several other books: a short illustrated biography, Jane Austen (1998), Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin', the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide (2002), and Jane Austen: The World of her Novels (2002), as well as numerous articles in literary journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Foreword Joan Impey
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes and Abbreviations
Chronology of Jane Austen's life
1. Austens and Leighs, 1600-1764
2. Deane and Steventon, 1764-75
3. India and France, 1752-85
4. Childhood and Steventon, 1775-86
5. Family Life, 1786-92
6. First compositions, 1787-92
7. The young Jane, 1792-6
8. Later years at Steventon, 1796-9
9. The Leigh-Perrots and Bath, 1799-1801
10. Bath and the West Country, 1801-4
11. Bath and Southampton, 1804-8
12. Southampton and Chawton, 1808-9
13. First publication, 1809-12
14. Pride and Prejudice, 1813
15. Mansfield Park and Emma, 1814-15
16. Emma and Persuasion, 1816-17
17. Biography, 1817 and after
References
Bibliography
Family pedigrees
Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen.