Jane Austen - by Claire Tomalin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Providing detailed and absorbing accounts of Jane Austen's friendships and travels, Tomalin shatters the myth of the novelist as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. of illustrations. Map.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English--but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her. Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, author of <i>A Life of My Own</i>, has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. <p/>While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that My dear Sister's life was not a life of events, Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval. Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Brisk and sparkling--a page turner, in fact.- <i>The New Yorker <p/></i>A biography that reflects Austen's own exacting standards, a book that radiates intelligence, wit, and insight.- <i>The New York Times <p/></i>Unusually absorbing and acute... Tomalin has a novelist's imagination and playful insight.- <i>The Atlantic Monthly </i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including <i>Thomas Hardy</i> and <i>Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self</i>, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the <i>New Statesman</i> and <i>The Sunday Times</i>. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.
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