Jane’s great achievement would be to let even the ordinary, flawed, human girls who read her books think that they might be heroines too.” ― Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen at Home: A Biography/5. · A fresh, spirited look at the beloved author by a self-proclaimed “Janeite.”. British historian Worsley (Maid of the King’s Court, , etc.), chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, is steeped in the world of Georgian England, where Jane Austen () lived, wrote, and set her novels. In a biography as brightly entertaining as it is erudite, the author offers a richly detailed portrait of Austen, . · Jane Austen is a household name, and we know very little about her. Historian Lucy Worsley seeks to change that by focusing on the famous author's life at home-- and lack there of one. What emerges is a story of the precarious business of being a woman in Georgian England/5.
In Jane Austen at Home, Worsley is shameless, occasionally ebullient and sometimes a little breathless. Worsley is also given to some speculative writing, which is understandable since so much of Jane Austen's insightful, acerbic correspondence was burned by her devoted, discreet, possibly envious, slightly overbearing older sister, Cassandra. Book review: Jane Austen at Home, by Lucy Worsley. Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen still fascinates. Mary Leland surveys a new biography of the famous writer that reveals the. 'Jane Austen is just basically the greatest human being who ever lived'Lucy Worsley's new book is a biography of Jane Austen told through the spaces and plac.
Synopsis. Characteristically spirited, Jane Austen at Home is an innovative and evocative exploration of Austen’s places that breathes life into a literary legend. On the th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the bltadwin.ru new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. 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. Jane Austen is a household name, and we know very little about her. Historian Lucy Worsley seeks to change that by focusing on the famous author's life at home-- and lack there of one. What emerges is a story of the precarious business of being a woman in Georgian England.
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