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100			_aStafford, Fiona
245			_aJane Austen : a brief life
260			_bYale University Press, _c2017 _aNew Haven :
300			_a174 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b12.95 _cUSD _d85.60
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aBIOGRAPHY: LITERARY. 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 attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author's life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen's six astonishing novels in the context of their time. Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron - full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.
650			_aAusten
650			_aBiography
650			_a Literary figures
650			_aWomen novelists
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