Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
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I have at last managed to acquire a copy of this much-awaited new biography of Jane Austen - on its publication day of 18 May 2017 no less - which has already received excellent reviews from the select early reviewers on Amazon.
Lucy's professional expertise qualified her for her important and senior curatorial role at Historic Royal Palaces in England. So the clever basis of this book is to explore Jane's life, times, position and works seen in the context of the properties she lived in throughout her life and her role within the family group living in that property. This approach works really well and produces some new insights into Jane's life which I have not seen elsewhere and must be credited as Lucy's own discoveries.
Lucy also uses her knowledge of Jane's life and insight into Jane's personality to tell a credible narrative of Jane's life. Some of the attributes associated with Lucy (such as her frankness about intimate matters, her knowledge of clothes, the conflicting demands of a woman who has both work and family responsibilities) are also deployed in trying to work out what Jane was thinking and how she responded to events. The book is well written and has excellent colour illustrations. I think the book is a triumph.
Bibliographic data
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (18 May 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1473632188
ISBN-13: 978-1473632189
Lucy's professional expertise qualified her for her important and senior curatorial role at Historic Royal Palaces in England. So the clever basis of this book is to explore Jane's life, times, position and works seen in the context of the properties she lived in throughout her life and her role within the family group living in that property. This approach works really well and produces some new insights into Jane's life which I have not seen elsewhere and must be credited as Lucy's own discoveries.
Lucy also uses her knowledge of Jane's life and insight into Jane's personality to tell a credible narrative of Jane's life. Some of the attributes associated with Lucy (such as her frankness about intimate matters, her knowledge of clothes, the conflicting demands of a woman who has both work and family responsibilities) are also deployed in trying to work out what Jane was thinking and how she responded to events. The book is well written and has excellent colour illustrations. I think the book is a triumph.
Bibliographic data
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (18 May 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1473632188
ISBN-13: 978-1473632189
