Jane Austen at Home : A Biography by Lucy Worsley (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography ~ Lucy Worsley

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-101250799961

ISBN-139781250799968

eBay Product ID (ePID)16050085560

Product Key Features

Book TitleJane Austen at Home : a Biography

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorLucy Worsley

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know...with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished."--Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review " ...A personal look inside the life of a singular woman.... [the] intimate spaces in both this book and in Austen's original works fly off the page in full-fledged color." --Madeleine Luckel, Vogue "Worsley writes with a historian's acumen and a Janeite's passion...This volume is sure to delight Austen fans."-- Library Journal, Starred Review "Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire

Dewey Decimal823.7

Synopsis"Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know...with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished." --Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses--both grand and small--of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a "life without incident." Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but--in the end--a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world's favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.