Jane and her gentlemen
Subtitle: Jane Austen and the men in her life and novels
By: Audrey Hawkridge.
Publisher: Peter Owen; Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Relations with men; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters -- Men; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Man-woman relationships in literature; Men in literature
Genres: Biography.
Description: This study considers the men associated with Jane Austen. It analyses the male characters in her novels, and considers how the real men she knew and socialized with shed their own light on the men in her works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part L Jane; title: 1 From Steventon to Chawton; title: 2 Conflicting Characteristics; title: Part I: The Men'ai Home; title: 3 In Hampshire and Kent; title: 4 Not a Mind for Affliction'; title: 5 The Admirals; title: Part m: Cameos; title: 6 Gentlemen Observed; title: 7 'Giving Universal Pleasure'; title: 8 Anti-Heroes; title: Part IV: Romance in Fiction and Fact; title: 9 Husbands for Heroines; title: 10 In Search of Love; title: 11 Retraction and Refusal; title: Notes; title: Seect Bibiography; title: Appediu I1: A Brief Chonology ofJane Austen's Life; title: Appenda 2: The Austen Famiy Tree; title: Index.