Jane Austen

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Jane Austen

The girl with the golden pen

Biography: writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Comparative literature

Author: Gill Hornby

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Collection: Great Lives

Language: English

Published by: Short Books

Published on: 6th July 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 230 Kb

ISBN: 9781780723372


Bicentenary Edition" Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen

In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned quietly into a genius… The modest, obedient youngest daughter of the Reverend Austen was to grow up to be one of the greatest writers in the English language. And the story of how she succeeded is every bit as romantic as one of her novels…

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