In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer ? important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked.The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books ? from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion ? and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility?and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.? Publishers WeeklyIn The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist.Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen's novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things ? a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature ? that held significance in Austen's personal and creative life.Byrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. Byrne's Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she's often acknowledged to occupy. The Real Jane Austen is a fresh, compelling, and surprising biography of the author of some of our most enduring classic books – from Pride and Prejudice to Sense and Sensibility, Emma to Persuasion – and a vivid evocation of the world that shaped her.?A vivacious portrait. In this ground-breaking biography, Austen is set on a wider stage than ever before, revealing a well-traveled and politically aware writer – important aspects of her artistic development that have long been overlooked. Just as letters and tokens in Jane Austen's novels often signal key turning points in the narrative, Byrne explores the small things – a scrap of paper, a gold chain, an ivory miniature – that held significance in Austen's personal and creative life.īyrne transports us to different worlds, from the East Indies to revolutionary Paris, and to different events, from a high society scandal to a case of petty shoplifting. In The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne provides the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of a beloved but complex novelist. both in life and in literature The Second Edition includes newly selected exam. three of them new, all of them allowing readers to glimpse the close-knit society that was Austens world.

and the last days of her life are all poignantly recounted Ten of Austens letters are reprinted. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility-and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.' - Publishers Weekly Austens early writing, her brief moment of romantic happiness.

The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne