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Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas

Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas

Answers to Your Most Burning Questions about Life, Love, Happiness (and What to Wear)

by Rebecca Smith
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/07/2014

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Jane Austen is more of a celebrity and media queen now than she was in her lifetime. As a forensic observer of the social scene, with a mordant wit, ironic eye, and a sly way of puncturing pretension and seeing past the social fa..ade, there is no doubt that if she had been with us today, she would have had her own column in an upmarket glossy a stylish, smartcookie agony aunt. Unfortunately, she did not get the opportunity, and so Jane Austens Guide to Modern Lifes Dilemmas is a crack at showing what it might have been like. This is a smart, sassy look at modern work, domestic, and romantic dilemmas, answered not by Jane Austen herself, but using her clear-eyed, witty, unsentimental view of life, love, and money with quotations from her books, letters, and unpublished writing as back-up. Treat it like a new and sensible best friend, to turn to whenever you are confronting lifes dilemmas (how can I stop saying yes to everything, what do I wear to a society wedding, is internet dating just for the desperate, etc).
ISBN:
9781782401643
9781782401643
Category:
Lifestyle & personal style guides
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-07-2014
Publisher:
The Ivy Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
208x146mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith's most recent book is The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best-Loved Novelist.

She is also the author of three novels: The Bluebird Café, Happy Birthday and All That and A Bit of Earth (all Bloomsbury) and Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas, which has been published around the world.

Her first novel for children, Shadow Eyes, was shortlisted for the 2012 Kelpies Prize. From 2009-2010 she was the Writer in Residence at Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton.

She lives in Hampshire and teaches creative writing at the University of Southampton. 

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