![]() ![]() The book also gives detailed attention to the novels themselves.Īfter this book, no longer can Austen be viewed as someone who did not engage with the great political events of her time. when her handicapped brother is removed from the family, when her exotic cousin Eliza arrives in the family circle, when her aunt was arrested for shoplifting, her time alone in London. Throughout, this audio-book gives the sense of Austen as an astute commentator on human nature in general and her own age in particular, and above all as a writer of independence and ambition.Įach chapter is focussed on a key moment in Austen’s life: eg. ![]() This Jane is a woman deeply immersed in the culture around her, but also far ahead of her time in her independence and tough-mindedness. Paula Byrne – an internationally renowned Jane Austen scholar and a best-selling biographer – has uncovered a very different Jane Austen to the Jane of popular imagination. Far from retelling a familiar story, Byrne’s book uses new research and new techniques to give us Jane Austen for the 21st century. The real Jane – revealed for the first time in this landmark biography – was a less cosy, more spiky, more modern figure than she is usually imagined to be. ![]() Since her death, people have got Jane Austen wrong. ![]()
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