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Becoming Jane Austen
Becoming Jane Austen
Author: Jon Spence
Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton. Jon Spence's new biography focuses its attention away from the wider literary and intellectual currents that informed her writing and instead ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781847250469
ISBN-10: 1847250467
Publication Date: 7/3/2007
Pages: 296
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3.3 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is an exploratory biography ... NOT a novel! If you're really an Austen fan and want to get a better understanding of who she really was as a person, this is a good book. Some might consider it to be on the dry side, but I enjoyed it.
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Dry to start with.... family trees's and such. And they all have the same names! Janes, and Harrys, and Johns... etc. Still if you are an Austen fan I think you will enjoy it.
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A quick Light read. Gave me a great weekend book. I would recommend to anyone that loves Jane Austen just for fun. Nothing too serious.


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