num_pages: 320
description: Jane Austen was a great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton. Jon Spence’s new biography focuses its attention away from the wider literary and intellectual currents that informed her writing and instead concentrates on the immediate influences on her life and work. Becoming Jane Austen shows how Jane Austen’s own personal experiences resonated throughout her work, from her juvenilia to Sanditon.
language: English
title: Becoming Jane Austen: A Life
titlecomplete: Becoming Jane Austen: A Life
genres: Historical, Literature, British Literature, History, Classics, Adult, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Romance
ratings_count: 4775
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Hambledon Pr