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Jane Austen at home : a biography / Lucy Worsley.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250131607 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 125013160X (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017, ©2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-340) and index. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 3 of 3 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Allentown Public Library System.
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown Public Library | AUSTEN, J. (Text) | 34455006349712 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
