Bibliograph

At home with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson

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At home with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

At home with Jane Austen

Oclc number

870288230

Responsibility statement

Kim Wilson

Summary

"Jane Austen is among the most widely read and beloved authors in English literature. Her novels vividly portray with humor and remarkable insight the society and world in which she lived. Austen's own life was deeply influenced by her surroundings and travels in southern England. The importance of house and home to her characters is a noted hallmark of her brilliant and enduring stories. From her youth in a country rectory in Steventon, a small village in Hampshire, England, where she wrote her first short stories, to the fashionable spa town of Bath, to the seaport of Southampton, to her final years in her last settled home of Chawton Cottage, where she penned her most famous novel, "Pride and Prejudice, " Jane Austen's life was hardly that of a shut-in. A regular visitor to London, to the seashore for the holidays, and to the estates of friends and relatives, Austen carried her own notion of home with her wherever she went, accompanied by her portable writing desk. With gorgeous illustrations and photography, including newly commissioned photographs of Steventon and Chawton Cottage, "At Home with Jane Austen" explores her world, her physical surroundings, and the journeys she took during her lifetime." -- Publisher description from book jacket

Table Of Contents

The author -- Steventon -- Away at school -- Bath -- Travels & tours -- Stately mansions -- Southhampton -- By the sea -- Chawton -- London -- Winchester

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