The Life of Jane Austen - Softcover

Halperin, Professor John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801834104 ISBN 13: 9780801834103

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Synopsis

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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Book Description

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.

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0801834104
• ISBN 13: 9780801834103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416