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Jane Austen at Home

Jane Austen at Home

A Biography

by Lucy Worsley
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/04/2017

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Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen at home, exploring the author's life through the places which meant the most to her.

On the eve of the bi-centenary of Jane Austen's death, step back into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived. Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodation, 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, where she wrote her many of her famous novels. 

This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison.

Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley will reveal a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

ISBN:
9781473632240
9781473632240
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-04-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x31mm
Weight:
0.57kg
Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley is, by day, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that looks after The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens.

By night, she is a writer and presenter, most recently author of the Cavalier: a Tale of Passion, Chivalry and Great Houses, described by the Mail on Sunday as 'a remarkable achievement by an immensely talented and innovative historian.'

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