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Drawing extensively on Austen's correspondence, this biography--the first full-length biography to appear since Elizabeth Jenkins's "Jane Austen" of 1938--draws in detail a rich psychological portrait of the novelist that illuminates the genesis and the substance of her works
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Making fuller use of Austen's correspondence than previous biographers, Halperin shows us the costs exacted on a sensitive and critical personality by a society--and, frequently, a family--that paid too little attention to the predicament of unmarried women, especially those with inadequate financial means.
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John Halperin is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of Trollope and Politics, Gissing: A Life in Books, C. P. Snow: An Oral Biography, Jane Austen's Lovers, Novelists in their Youth, and Eminent Georgians.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0801823358
- ISBN 13 9780801823350
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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