The life of Jane Austen / John Halperin ; [with new preface].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halperin, John, 1941-2018.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1996]

Summary:

Making fuller use of Austen's correspondence than previous biographers, Halperin shows us the costs exacted on a sensitive and critical personality by a society--and, frequently, a family--that paid too little attention to the predicament of unmarried women, especially those with inadequate financial means.

Contents:

The end, July 1817

Steventon, 1775-1787

The juvenilia and beyond,1787-1795

The years of the first 'trilogy, ' 1796-1799: Pride and prejudice, Sense and sensibility, Northanger Abby

The treacherous years, 1800-1806

The light and the dark, 1807-1810

The years of the second 'trilogy, ' 1811-1816: Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion

Waiting for death, 1816-1817.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-376) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Halperin, John, 1941- Life of Jane Austen.

ISBN:

0801855098

9780801855092

OCLC:

36399901