The life of the author : Jane Austen / Catherine Delafield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delafield, Catherine, author.

Series:

Life of the author

The life of the author

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Correspondence.

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

Novelists, English.

Women novelists, English--Biography.

Women novelists, English.

Letters.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Jane Austen

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

"This biography revitalises Jane Austen's life by focusing on the evidence and narrative possibilities of her letters. The book creates three frames for her literary life and output by following parallel paths through her correspondence. In three pairs of chapters the letters are viewed thematically through the prisms of personal and family life writing, Austen's circle of correspondents, and significant places in her life and novels. The final chapter explores other areas of speculative interest in Austen by rereading documentary scraps from the letters' standpoint. Discussion of the works includes the letters themselves as well as the juvenile writings and unpublished novels. There is particular emphasis on Austen's female circle and the ways in which her life evidence has been treated leading up to the bicentenary of her death. The aim has been to open up literary-biographical interpretation by suggesting ways of re-addressing an apparently inexhaustible biographical subject"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. A life in letters

Austen's life in letters

Austen's letters in family "lives"

Cassandra and correspondence

The sisterhood of the letters

Novels in letters : letters into novels

Letters and novels : places and spaces

Letters and patchwork : scraps in the life

Conclusion letters and biography: Prisms, kaleidoscopes, 'elephants & kangaroons'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Delafield, Catherine. Life of the author. Jane Austen.

ISBN:

9781119779346

1119779340

OCLC:

1338165715