Fecha de nacimiento: 1966
Género: female
Nacionalidad: United Kingdom
Lugar de nacimiento: London, England, UK
Educación: BA, History, University of Southampton 1988
Biografía breve: Ms Rebecca Smith is a novelist and Principal Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Southampton.
I am the author of three novels - The Bluebird Café, Happy Birthday and All That and A Bit of Earth (all Bloomsbury) and two works of nonfiction - The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas (Ivy Press, 2014). These have been published around the world. I wrote the text for the picture book, Where’s Jane? (Ivy Kids, 2018). My fourth novel for adults, The Ash Museum, will be published by Legend Press in May 2021. I am a member of The Society of Authors and The National Association of Writers in Education. I supervise MA and PhD creative writing students working on a variety of topics in fiction for adults and young people.

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Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's… por Rebecca Smith

I received this book for free through the Goodreads First Reads program.

Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas: Answers to Your Most Burning Questions About Life, Love, Happiness (and What to Wear) from the Great Novelist Herself is a fun "Dear Abby" column but filled with advice based on Jane Austen's novels and her life. The book is divided up into several sections (e.g., fashion, home, love, etc.) and within each section, related questions are asked. The author, Rebecca Smith is the great-great-great-great-great niece of Jane Austen and truly appears to have done her research on her aunt's books and her life. Each answer is filled with direct quotations from Austen's books and her letters to Cassandra (Jane's sister). I enjoyed seeing the connections between modern life problems and Austen's heroines. My one complaint is that I feel that the questions are quite lighthearted and the answers are a bit too serious (they are fun, mind you, but there are quotations and references!). This format may not have been the best for presenting Rebecca Smith's knowledge of her aunt. In any event, I did enjoy this book and I feel that I will return to it every time I finish an Austen novel.… (más)

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silverarrowknits | otra reseña | Sep 8, 2013 |

Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas… por Rebecca Smith

Some people look towards a higher power when it comes to working through life challenges, others look toward their favorite author. For Janeites like myself, author Rebecca Smith has compiled a reference book devoted to Jane Austen’s words of wisdom. Readers who want as varied advice as looking for the perfect mate to getting the neighborhood eyesore removed can find Ms. Austen’s practical, and often humorous, advice (gleaned from her novels and her letters) collected in the collection.

Though not a text for the uninitiated, those who delight in Austen’s work, and return to Pride and Prejudice time and again, will find words of wisdom to guide even the most mundane of life choices. I can’t recommend this book to Austen fans enough!… (más)

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daffodile | otra reseña | Apr 10, 2013 |

A Bit of Earth por Rebecca Smith

A novel that has no cynicism and is just a lovely read is quite rare on my book shelf and this is one of those novels. Rebecca Smith may slip in to some easy stereotypes of absent-minded academics, but this is forgiveable. The novel revolves around the university botanical garden, which sounds a magical place; all the characters spend time there and meet each other there and when it is under threat, the need to save the garden brings them together and changes their lives for the better. She has lots of fun with some minor characters. A generally charming read.… (más)

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CarolKub | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 30, 2010 |

A Bit of Earth por Rebecca Smith

A Bit of Earth by Rebecca Smith is a story of loss: a botany lecturer loses his wife in an accident and is left alone with their small son, to muddle along in a state of abstraction and distress. Young Felix Misselthwaite (nice Secret Garden reference), isolated and unhappy, is saved by his love of the university's neglected botanic garden, where he finds friends animal and human. These two books are about loss and fragmentation, approaching personal disasters from very different angles, but they are also about the redemptive power of the human spirit. A warm and goodhearted book.… (más)

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GeraniumCat | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 1, 2009 |

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