This is really good – I expected a rather frothy and lightweight book from a woman who likes to prance around in period costume in her TV documentaries, but far from it – this is a scholarly, well written and often funny biography of Jane Austen, full of interesting insights and facts that I didn’t know.
Very good on class, the position of women and the concept of a home (Jane Austen never owned one) in early 19th century Georgian England.
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