Jane Austen

Spence, Jon. Becoming Jane Austen: The True Love Story That Inspired Classic Novels. New York: MJF Books, 2003. ISBN: 1567318940

8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. 294 pages with index plus 8 pages black & white illustrations. The book and dust jacket are FINE/AS NEW (unread). NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. Comes with BRODART jacket cover. Dust jacket notes read: "The traditional view has been that Jane Austen lived a quiet, uneventful life, mostly in the two small English villages of Steventon and Chawton. And yet, within her novels, she seems to know all there is to know about human relations, about how even the best of us can get lost in misunderstanding, misperception, and self-delusion. In her hands, the most seemingly trivial decisions-such as who takes a walk with whom-become invested with profound moral significance. Where did all this understanding come from? In BECOMING JANE AUSTEN, Jon Spence argues that the tangled love stories she tells so warmly and wittily came not only from her sharp social observations and fertile imagination, but also from her own experiences. Earlier biographers have noted Austen's romance with the good-looking, fair-haired Tom Lefroy. But Spence says the relationship was more serious and enduring than previously believed, profoundly influencing Austen's life an art. Like many young people at the time, Jane and Tom first met a ball, and continued to meet at several others. Jane's own letters to her sister Cassandra talk about the gossip their conduct inspired and of looking forward 'with great impatience' to a party where she expected 'to receive an offer from my find in the course of the evening.' As far as anyone knows, Tom did no propose at the time, and he and Jane parted company. But based on new evidence, Spence speculates that the two later saw each other in London, where Jane still expected a marriage proposal-which Tom was willing to offer. But Tom was about to enter law school, and his relatives, especially the powerful uncle who was paying for his education, convinced him he couldn't afford a wife from a relatively poor family such as Jane's. The two never saw each other again. Spence also discusses the importance of Jane's sister-in-law Eliza de Feuillade. A charismatic older woman, Eliza was still married when she began her seduction of Jane's brother Henry, who was more than a decade younger than she was. After her husband's death, Eliza and Henry did marry, and Spence claims that the unsavory nature of their romance haunted Austen for years. Spence shows how other relative and friends also played their parts in shaping the young author's life and imagination. But Tom and Eliza were no doubt the most influential, and Spence hears echoes of their presence throughout all of Austen's great novels. Insightful, entertaining, and ultimately quite moving, BECOMING JANE AUSTEN is essential reading for any Austen fan. THE STORY BEHIND THE NOVELS-AND THE 2007 film Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway." Hard Back condition: Fine in Fine dj

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Deirdre Le Faye Illustrator: NA: Jane Austen: A Family Record (Second Edition) Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN: 9780521534178

New Softcover NA This book is the outcome of years of research in Austen archives, and stems from the original family biography by W. and R.A. Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen : her Lifer and Letters. Jane Austen : A family Records was first published in 1989, and this new edition incorporates information that has come to light since then, and provides new illustrations and updated family trees. Le Faye gives a detailed account of Jane's life and literary career. She has collected together documented facts as well as the traditions concerning the novelist, and places her within the context of a widespread, affectionate and talented family group. Readers will learn how Jane transformed the stuff of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside into six novels that are amongst the most popular in the English language. This fascinating record of Austen and her family will be of great interest to general readers and scholars alike. Contents List of plates Foreword by 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 at Steventon, 1775-86 5. Family life, 1986-92 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. Masnfield Park and Emma, 1814-15 16. Emma and Persuasion, 1816-17 17. Biography, 1817 and after Notes Bibliography Family pedigrees Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen Index Printed Pages: 406. 2nd edition

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Jibesh Bhattacharya Illustrator: NA: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (The Atlantic Critical Studies) Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd 2005 ISBN: 9788126905492

New Hardcover NA Jams Austen (1775-1817) Jane Austen has been regarded by critics as the moot perfect artist in English fiction. George Saintsbury compared her to Shakespeare whose detachment and elusiveness she certainly shares. She was a truly great novelist of manners among the country gentry. Born in the family of a rector of Steventon in Hampshire, Jane Austen had her early education in Oxford and Reading. She started writing early in life. Between 1792 and 1798 she completed her first four novels, Lady Susan, First Impressions (later entitled Pride and Prejudice), Elinor and Marianne (later called Sense and Sensibility) and Northanger Abbey. Later she produced three more novels: Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. She contracted tuberculosis and died tragically early at the age of 41. Although not recognized in her time, her popularity has increased, rather than faded, with the passing of years, which will be evident from the remark of F.R. Leavis: "Jane Austen inaugurated the great tradition of fiction." Pride and Prejudice was Jane AustenaEUR s first novel. She started writing it in 1797 under the title First Impressions. Later she revised it and it was published in 1813 under the title Pride and Prejudice. It is a novel mainly concerned with the problems of marriage. Four pairs, "Elizabeth and Darcy, Jane and Bingley, Charlotte and Collins, Lydia and Wickham are married on different considerations. The main 3tory concerns the first pair who are first separated because of their pride and prejudice and later reconciled and united as their misunderstandings are removed. This novel has been accepted as the masterpiece of the novelist having a superbly balanced plot-construction and a well-defined character development. Jane Austen here succeeded in wedding realism to a lively dialogue and evolved a witty narrative style to express in the most vital manner the story of a young girl and her love. Printed Pages: 190. 5th or later edition

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Wilson, Kim: Die Gärten der Jane Austen Ausflüge zu den Schauplätzen ihrer Romane. Vorw. v. Celia Simpson, DVA, 089 ISBN: 3421037671
Schauplätze der Weltliteratur - für alle Leserinnen von Jane Austen Jane Austen liebte die Vielfalt der Gärten. Begleiten Sie sie in diesem Buch anhand lebhafter Zeugnisse aus ihren Briefen und bezaubernder Auszüge aus ihren Romanen zu den Gärten, die sie besaß oder kannte, zu den Gärten ihrer Verwandten und Freunde, zu den öffentlichen Parks, den Landhausgärten, den Stadtgärten und den Gärten der Schlösser und Herrenhäuser der georgianischen Epoche, Schauplätze ihrer Romane und deren Verfilmungen. Von Bath und London, Hampshire, Warwickshire, Northhamptonshire und Kent werden Sie in stimmungsvollen Fotografien und zeitgenössischen Radierungen und Skizzen ein Garten-Panorama der Zeit Jane Austens entdecken. Sie werden eine Jane Austen erleben, wie Sie sie noch nicht kannten, oder, mit ihren eigenen Worten: "An einem schönen Tag im Schatten zu sitzen und ins Grüne zu schauen, ist die wunderbarste Erfrischung" (aus Mansfield Park ). - Die schönsten Zitate, stimmungsvolle Fotos undfundierte Beschreibungen der Gärten, die Jane Austen liebte - Mit Fokus auf ihrem eigenen Garten im "Jane Austen's House Museum" in Chawton, Hampshire - Mit praktischen Informationen zur Anreise und Besichtigung

NEUBUCH! 2009. 114 S. m. 78 Farbfotos u. 17 SW-Abb. 22,5 cm 224 mm x 177 mm x 17 mm Mit 78 Farbabbildungen und 17 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen

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