Jane Austen - (Y) by Janet Todd (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b><i>Jane Austen</i> traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work, and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels, from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa. It features images and reproduced documents from Jane Austen's archives, including personal letters and handwritten drafts of her works.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Jane Austen's sharp, witty novels have a devoted readership--and this biography feeds her fans' appetite for background on the beloved author, providing information on her relationships, contemporary attitudes, and the settings for her novels. <i>D</i>rawing on personal archives, <i>Jane Austen</i> features rare early manuscripts; a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels; a letter from Jane's father to the publisher Thomas Cadell; and pages from the unfinished manuscript of <i>Sanditon</i>.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Janet Todd is an authority on the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is currently Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen University and the President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She is a well-respected author of many books on women in literature, including <i>Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life</i>, <i>Jane Austen: In Context</i>, and <i>Aphra Behn: A Secret Life</i>, along with her memoir, <i>Radiation Diaries</i>.
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