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This work is a study of the life and work of Jane Austen, who sprang from the upper-middle class society of late 18th-century southern England. Self-contained, orthodox in morals and religion, depending for its strength on the professions and on the ownership of the land - this was the milieu in which she spent her life and which she describes so memorably in her novels. Her environment provided her with material ideally suited to her talents: accurate observation of character, wit, dramatic show more intuition, an ear for realistic dialogue and a highly disciplined formal sense. show lessTags
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This is a fairly short biography of Jane Austen with a lot of illustrations, a good book to get a flavour of the woman and her time.
The language occasionally shifts into a more academic mode occasionally but overall it reads almost like a well done website on the author.
The language occasionally shifts into a more academic mode occasionally but overall it reads almost like a well done website on the author.
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- Jane Austen and Her World
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