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Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a sizeable family, with numerous nephews and nieces. She was, by all accounts, good with children and popular with them. It was therefore natural for her to include them in her novels, even if sometimes offstage. This book, by one of the world's leading authorities on Austen, looks at both the real and the literary children in her life - children seen and unseen (and dead); children as models of behaviour, good and bad; as objects of affection, amusement, usefulness, pity, regret, jealousy, resentment; children in the way; children as excuses; children as heirs. In the process it casts fascinating light on a hitherto largely ignored aspect of her work and the age in which she lived.
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David Selwyn is the author of Jane Austen and Leisure and the editor of Jane Austen Collected Poems and verse of the Austen Family, The Complete Poems of James Austen, Fugitive Pieces: The poems of James Edward Austen-Leigh and, with Maggie Lane, Jane Austen: A Celebration. He is Chairman of the Jane Austen Society. As well as editing the journal of the Jane Austen Society, he has contributed to the new Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen for CUP, and also to the forthcoming second edition of the Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.
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'Anyone interested in children in the time of Jane Austen...will find much in this new book to interest and inform...for both the general reader and the more serious scholarly audience.' (Sensibilities)
'Anyone interested in children in the time of Jane Austen...will find much in this new book to interest and inform...for both the general reader and the more serious scholarly audience.’ (Sanford Lakoff)
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- PublisherContinuum
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847250416
- ISBN 13 9781847250414
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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