Jane Austen: Inspiring Lives
Author | : Lauren Nixon |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780752490854 |
ISBN-13 | : 0752490850 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist – 200 years after her death. We seem to have a never-ending appetite for the swooning of Sense & Sensibility; smouldering passion of Pride & Prejudice – resulting in a near constant supply of film adaptations and spin-off books. The fan market for Austen – the Austenites - is huge and international. Her novels are about to celebrate their bicentennials (Sense & Sensibility 2011). 30,000 visitors each year to Chawton, Hamspshire and Jane Austen Centre, Bath. This book will reveal the real Jane: bitchy, gossipy, badly behaved at times as well as show the side we all love: the writer, sister, true romantic.