Best Jane Austen Biography - May 2024

Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of DevonshireTake 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 wh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125013160X
• ASIN: 125013160X
• ISBN: 125013160X
• Brand: ST MARTINS
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

She Said It Best: Jane Austen: Wit & Wisdom to Color & Display

Jane Austen is one of the most beloved authors of all time, and her wit and wisdom transcends the classic literature classroom to resonate with women of all walks of life. For everyone who has dreamed of meeting her Mr. Darcy, we present a coloring book featuring Jane’s most profound, witty, and insightful quotes, along with art to color.Sample quotations include:“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”“We are all fools in love.”“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”This clever and lovely coloring book series combines quotations from beloved wise women with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250134560
• ASIN: 1250134560
• ISBN: 9781250134561
• Brand: GRIFFIN
• Manufacturer: Castle Point Books

Jane Austen: A Life

At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her.  Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief lif... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679766766
• ASIN: 0679766766
• ISBN: 0679766766
• Brand: Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

In The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist.Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen’s novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things – a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature – that held significance in Austen’s personal and creative life.Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In this ground-b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061999091
• ASIN: 0061999091
• ISBN: 0061999091
• Manufacturer: Harper

Jane Austen's England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods

An authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)Nearly two centuries after her death, Jane Austen remains the most cherished of all novelists in the English language, incomparable in the wit, warmth, and insight with which she depicts her characters and life. Yet the milieu Austen presents is only one aspect of the England in which she lived, a time of war, unrest, and dramatic changes in the country’s physical and social landscape. Jan... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143125729
• ASIN: 0143125729
• ISBN: 0143125729
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Writers of All Time Book 4)

• ASIN: B01IAQIB2O
• ASIN: B01IAQIB2O
• Manufacturer: Book House Publishing

Tea with Jane Austen

Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and join her in a cup of tea? Here for the first time is a book that shares the secrets of one of her favorite rituals.Tea figures prominently in Jane Austen's life and work. At the center of almost every social situation in her novels one finds tea. In Emma, does Miss Bates drink coffee? Of course not: 'No coffee, I thank you, for me-never take coffee.-A little tea if you please.' In Pride and Prejudice, what is one of the supreme honors Mr. Collins can envision Lady Catherine bestowing on Elizabeth Bennet and her friends? Why, drinking tea with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0711231893
• ASIN: 0711231893
• ISBN: 0711231893
• Brand: Brand: Frances Lincoln
• Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln

1500 Eternal Masterpieces of Fairy Tales: Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Spleeping Beauty, The Ugly Ducking, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin ... Lamp, The Happy Prince, Blue Beard...

Here you will find more than 1500 fairy tales, such as "Aladdin", "Sinbad the Sailor", "The Ugly Ducking", "Little Tin Soldier", "The Little Match Girl", "Blue Beard", "Beauty and the Beast", "Puss in Boots", "The Happy Prince", "The Little Mermaid", "Cinderella", "Rapunzel", and "The Sleeping Beauty".

• ASIN: B07QGFCJQD
• ASIN: B07QGFCJQD
• Manufacturer: Athenaeum Classics

Jane Austen, Her Life And Letters: A Family Record (1913)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

• ASIN: 1436569311
• ASIN: 1436569311
• ISBN: 1436569311
• Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels

With a wealth of details about Jane Austen's life and times, this volume brings to life the world of her novels. Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye first gives an overview of the period, from foreign affairs to social ranks, from fashion to sanitation. She goes on to consider each novel individually.

• ASIN: 0711222789
• ASIN: 0711222789
• ISBN: 0711222789
• Brand: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln

The Jane Austen Cookbook

Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large and sociable family. Brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends and acquaintances were always coming and going, which offered numerous occasions for convivial eating and drinking. One of Jane’s dearest friends, Martha Lloyd, lived with the family for many years and recorded in her “Household Book” over 100 recipes enjoyed by the Austens. A selection of this family fare, now thoroughly tested and modernized for today’s cooks, is recreated here, together with some of the more sophisticated dishes which Jane and her characters wo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0771014171
• ASIN: 0771014171
• ISBN: 0771014171
• Brand: McClelland Stewart
• Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart

The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best-loved Novelist

A spirited and useful guide for writers with tips and tricks from Jane Austen, whose novels stand the test of time, by her great great great great grand niece.Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world’s most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1632865882
• ASIN: 1632865882
• ISBN: 9781632865885
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

Jane Austen: A Biography (Classic Literature with Classical Music)

This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biography of one the greatest English novelists. It illustrates not only the character and opinions of an unusually perceptive and gifted woman, but also the social life amongst the county gentry of Georgian England. Outside her writing, Jane Austen's main interest was her large and affectionate family and their circle of friends. This is the world she so brilliantly depicted in her novels, and Elizabeth Jenkins shows how often the settings and characters mirrored the writer's own life in Hampshire.

• ASIN: 9626342013
• UPC: 009626342013
• ASIN: 9626342013
• ISBN: 9789626342015
• Manufacturer: Naxos Audio Books

Becoming Jane Austen

Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship inspired Pride and Prejudice, one of the most celebrated works of fiction ever written. Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of the romance, which was more serious and more enduring than previously believed. Seeing this love story in the context of Jane Austen's whole life enables us t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1847250467
• ASIN: 1847250467
• ISBN: 1847250467
• Manufacturer: Continuum

The Complete Anne of Green Gables Collection

• ASIN: B0774X8MGD
• ASIN: B0774X8MGD
• Manufacturer: Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Complete and unabridged this elegantly designed, hardcover edition is slip cased and features a ribbon marker and period styling as well as an introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on Austen's life and

• UPC: 50091949
• Rating: 4.875

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

Complete and unabridged this elegantly designed, hardcover edition is slip cased and features a ribbon marker and period styling as well as an introduction providing the reader with enlightening information on Austen's life and

• UPC: 21661226
• Rating: 4.857

Jane Austen

Part of the best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Jane Austen tells the inspiring story of one of the most loved British writers of all

• UPC: 471220317
• Rating: 5.0

Jane Austen the Dover Reader

"Selections from the English author's works include the complete text of two of her most popular books: her masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, and her final and possibly most sophisticated novel, Persuasion. This anthology also offers

• UPC: 48930527
• Rating: 4.0

The Jane Austen Book Club

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and

• UPC: 3378962
• Rating: 2.872

The Prayers of Jane Austen

Jane Austen was not only a beloved and uniquely gifted writer, but she was also a woman of unexpected spiritual depth. Here are her beautiful, heartfelt prayers, which reveal her gratitude for God's blessings and

• UPC: 43911052
• Rating: 4.0

CSA Word Recording: The Jane Austen Collection (Audiobook)

Pride and Prejudice - An elegant tableau revolving around the five Bennett daughters, including clever, strong-spirited Elizabeth. Austen's masterpiece is a study of love, loss and snobbery.Sense and Sensibility - The engaging story of sisters

• UPC: 22040616
• Rating: 4.857

The Jane Austen Collection

A beautiful box set of the works of Jane Austen, containing some of literature's greatest love

• UPC: 55309930

What Matters in Jane Austen? : Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

An acclaimed literary scholar asks twenty seemingly trivial questions that reveal deep truths about Jane Austen and the lasting power of her

• UPC: 38180532
• Rating: 4.25

Lost in Austen : Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure

An interactive novel in which the reader determines the course of action for characters from Jane Austen's works, beginning with Elizabeth Bennet whose mission is to marry both prudently and for love, while avoiding family

• UPC: 5478691
• Rating: 3.769

Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Best Loved Author,Maggie L

• UPC: 382548662131
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP

Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Best Loved Author

• UPC: 202665602375
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP