austen, jane

A collection of critical essays that examine the life and writings of eighteenth-century author Jane Austen, providing a chronology of her life, assessing her six major novels, as well as works not intended for publication, and addressing various aspects of Austen's cultural context.

An illustrated biography of the witty English novelist, with stories of her accomplished family and her times, the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Reexamines the life of late eighteenth-century author Jane Austen, discussing her relationship with her sister Cassandra, and her reputed love affair in the summer of 1801, and revealing some of the secrets the Austen family struggled for so long to conceal.