Jane Austen at home : a biography
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her 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.
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- ISBN: 9781250131607
- Physical Description 387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition First U.S. edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Table of Contents
Jane Austen at Home : A Biography
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction: Jane Austen at Home | p. 1 | |
Act 1 | A Sunny Morning at the Rectory | |
1 | To Steventon | p. 7 |
2 | Enter Jane | p. 20 |
3 | Boys | p. 28 |
4 | A Little Learning | p. 41 |
5 | The Abbey School | p. 49 |
6 | The Freindship of Women | p. 55 |
7 | The Wars | p. 70 |
8 | Cassandra's Romance | p. 77 |
9 | Youth and Beauty | p. 84 |
10 | Novels | p. 101 |
11 | 'My Irish friend' | p. 109 |
12 | First Impressions | p. 120 |
13 | Godmersham Park | p. 124 |
14 | Away from Home | p. 133 |
15 | Homeless | p. 146 |
Act 2 | A Sojourner in a Strange Land | |
16 | Bath | p. 153 |
17 | The Sea | p. 165 |
18 | Manydown Park | p. 171 |
19 | Susan | p. 179 |
20 | 'Wild to see Lyme' | p. 186 |
21 | Green Park Buildings East | p. 192 |
22 | A House Fit for a Heroine | p. 204 |
23 | Castle Square | p. 214 |
Act 3 | A Real Home | |
24 | Chawton Cottage | p. 231 |
25 | Published! | p. 243 |
26 | Pride and Prejudice | p. 250 |
27 | The Great House | p. 259 |
28 | The Diversions of Young Ladies | p. 268 |
29 | Parading about London | p. 277 |
30 | Carlton House | p. 284 |
Act 4 | The End, and After | |
31 | Disasters | p. 291 |
32 | A Poor Honey | p. 297 |
33 | Unfinished Business | p. 304 |
34 | College Street | p. 311 |
35 | A Final Home | p. 316 |
36 | 'Was there anything particular about that lady?' | p. 322 |
Epilogue: What happened to Jane's homes? | p. 327 | |
Acknowledgements | p. 329 | |
Sources | p. 331 | |
Bibliography | p. 333 | |
Notes | p. 341 | |
Index | p. 375 | |
Picture Acknowledgements | p. 387 |