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2012.
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Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record.
In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer...
In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer...
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Publication Date
c2013
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xi, 380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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This new biography explores the forces that shaped the interior life of one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Each chapter begins by evoking an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen's life and work. The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern that the conventional picture. The book looks at the biographical influence on her work, as well as her boundless...
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Publication Date
2023.
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xiv, 205 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desire to break free from society's constraints."--Amazon.com.
Lady Caroline Lamb's scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity-- and her desire to beak free from society's constraints. Fraser animates the life of this true "free spirit" who was far more than the strictures of her era allow...
10) Jane Austen
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Publication Date
c1978
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144 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical table, map, music, portraits (some color) ; 31 cm
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An illustrated biography of the witty English novelist, with stories of her accomplished family and her times, the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Publication Date
2022.
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357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"1851: a year of political unrest and social inequality, industrial progress and artistic innovation, it is also a turbulent year in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and a home in danger of falling apart. But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in his life and writing, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives and establishes himself as an important...
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2024.
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312 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm
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"From the novels to the screen, from adaptions to filming secrets, dive into the world of Jane Austen. Discover her life, inspirations, correspondence and the incredible influence of her work in her time through to today. A modest young lady of the country gentry, like many of her heroines, Jane Austen could have made her life the theme of one of her novels. To understand the origins of her inspiration and her talent, first discover her life, her...
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Publication Date
2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Brave Jane Austen, a picture book biography of the groundbreaking female novelist. Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives. Jane didn’t have much opportunity to go to school but she read everything she could, including all the books in her father’s study. And before long, she began...
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[2006?], c2003
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xii, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables ; 21 cm.
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In Becoming Jane Austen, Jon Spence shows how events and people in Austen's own early life affected her so deeply that she continually reshaped them into the plots and characters of her fiction.
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[2017]
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107 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her writing--principally her five novels--is a critique of the British landed...
20) Jane Austen's bookshelf: a rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend
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Publication Date
2025.
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Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen's books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn't a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers -- and clues about those...
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