Name: Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
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Author: Worsley, Lucy
ISBN: 9781250799968

portada Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucy Worsley

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781250799968

Synopsis "Jane Austen at Home: A Biography "

Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know...with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished. --Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses--both grand and small--of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a life without incident. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but--in the end--a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world's favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.

Lucy Worsley

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Lucy Worsley is an English historian and presenter of historical programs for the BBC. An admirer of Jane Austen, in 2017 she published a biography titled Jane Austen at Home: A Biography in which she offers a different perspective of the brilliant writer

Lucy has published several books, many guides to houses and the like. Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court (2011) is her most recent historical work. In 2014, BBC Books published her book A Very British Murder, based on the series. In April 2016, Worsley published her first children's novel, Eliza Rose, about a young noblewoman in a Tudor court

She currently lives in Southwark on the banks of the River Thames in South London with her husband, architect Mark Hines, whom she married in November 2011

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