Jane Austen : a brief life /
Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the att...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1543743 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; contents; introduction; childhood 1775-87; early writing 1787-92; the true art of letter-writing 1793-7; bath 1798-1804; from home to home 1804-9; sense and sensibility and pride and prejudice 1809-13; mansfield park and emma 1813-15; persuasion 1816; 'winchester races' 1817; remembering jane; afterword; notes; bibliography.