Jane Austen at Home A Biography by Lucy Worsley
Brand: St. Martin's Press
Product Description
Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austens world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender creativity and domesticity.Amanda Foreman bestselling author of Georgianna Duchess of Devonshire Take a trip back to Jane Austens world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austens childhood home her schools her holiday accommodations the housesboth grand and smallof the relations upon whom she was dependent and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage Godmersham Park Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a life without incident. Worsley examines the rooms spaces and possessions which mattered to her and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom a woman who had at least five marriage prospects butin the enda woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates Lucy Worsleys Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the worlds favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels home. show more
Condition : New
Author : Lucy Worsley
Weight : 710
Publisher : St. Martins Press
Language : English
EAN : 9781250131607
ISBN10 : 125013160X
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20170530
Place of Publication : New York
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 163 X 241 X 33mm