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Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin (Paperback / softback)
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At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved vels written in English--but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did t survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that -My dear Sister's life was t a life of events, - Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose kwledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA Inc, Random House Inc
ISBN-100679766766
ISBN-139780679766766
eBay Product ID (ePID)183726779
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AuthorClaire Tomalin
FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBiography: Literary
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Place of PublicationNew York
Content NoteIllustrations
Author BiographyClaire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.
Country of PublicationUnited States
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