"This biography revitalises Jane Austen's life by focusing on the evidence and narrative possibilities of her letters. The book creates three frames for her literary life and output by following parallel paths through her correspondence. In three pairs of chapters the letters are viewed thematically through the prisms of personal and family life writing, Austen's circle of correspondents, and significant places in her life and novels. The final chapter explores other areas of speculative interest in Austen by rereading ...
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"This biography revitalises Jane Austen's life by focusing on the evidence and narrative possibilities of her letters. The book creates three frames for her literary life and output by following parallel paths through her correspondence. In three pairs of chapters the letters are viewed thematically through the prisms of personal and family life writing, Austen's circle of correspondents, and significant places in her life and novels. The final chapter explores other areas of speculative interest in Austen by rereading documentary scraps from the letters' standpoint. Discussion of the works includes the letters themselves as well as the juvenile writings and unpublished novels. There is particular emphasis on Austen's female circle and the ways in which her life evidence has been treated leading up to the bicentenary of her death. The aim has been to open up literary-biographical interpretation by suggesting ways of re-addressing an apparently inexhaustible biographical subject"--
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