Title: The life of Jane Austen
First published: 1984
Description: Moving beyond the usual sketchy account of Austen's life--and away from the serene and untroubled image of Austen created, in large part, by her family after her death--Halperin reveals a robust, vigorous, and at times difficult woman with a large and diverse circle of family and acquaintances. He documents her troubled relationship with her hypochondriac mother, her frank dislike of a sister-in-law, and shed new light on the shadowy existence of a retarded older brother.
Subjects: Biography, English Novelists, Novelists, English, Biographies, Écrivains anglais, English Women novelists, 19th century, Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, Authors, biography
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR4036 .H24 1984b