Becoming Jane Austen
Subtitle: a life
By: Jon Spence
Publisher: Hambledon and London
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817; Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, -- 1776-1869 -- Relations with women; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Relations with men; Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Family; De Feuillide, Eliza; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "Becoming Jane Austen shows how Jane Austen's own personal experiences resonated throughout her work, from her juvenilia to Sanditon. Two people, above all, affected her life and caught her imagination. The first was her flirtatious and exotic cousin, Eliza de Feullide, married to a French count who was later guillotined. The second was the young Irish lawyer, Tom Lefroy, with whom Jane fell in love and whom she hoped to marry. Jon Spence traces the deep emotional impact that her encounters with Eliza and Tom had on her, and shows how she worked this out in her life and in her work, including in her major novels." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279) and index