Paula Byrne

The Real Jane Austen (eBook, ePUB)

A Life in Small Things

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who was the real Jane Austen? A spinster who sat in a vicarage confining her novels to the small canvas of village life? Or a woman who knew the turbulent world around her and who took the bold decision to remain unmarried and fashion herself as a professional writer?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007358335
• Artikelnr.: 38086056

Autorenporträt

Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies 'Perdita', 'Mad World', 'The Real Jane Austen', 'Belle', 'Kick' and 'The Genius of Jane Austen'. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.

Rezensionen

"[Byrne] breathes yet more life into Austen and her works by considering the objects that populated her days.... [The] thematic approach offers a revealing picture of Austen and a lively social history....paints a fresh and vivid picture of an inimitable woman." The Economist