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A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen

10 best books like A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen (Richard Jenkyns): Jane Austen: A Life, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, The World of Jane Austen, A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball, Jane Austen's Letters, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Jane Austen: A Life, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility, Searching for Jane Austen

Jane Austen: A Life
AuthorCarol Shields
ISBN0143035169
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
AuthorDeirdre Le Faye
ISBN0711222789
With pictures galore, Le Faye gives a short bio of Jane Austen, some cultural background of her world, and runs through each of Austen's works. Also includes contemporary maps (i.e., from about 1805) of the English counties Jane either set her stories in or that she personally lived in.

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The World of Jane Austen
AuthorNigel Nicolson
ISBN0753800179
In addition to devising some of the most remarkable characters in literature, Jane Austen vividly depicted their world. An engaging mixture of biography and photographic study provides a glimpse into the houses and scenery that formed the "stage set" where her stories unfolded, from the author's...
A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball
AuthorSusannah Fullerton
ISBN0711232458
"The period illustrations and dance diagrams are charming, but Fullerton's discussion of dance in Austen's novels is both incisive and entertaining. From the Netherfield ball in Pride and Prejudice to Anne Elliot playing the piano as her friends dance in Persuasion, Fullerton explains how dancing...
Jane Austen's Letters
AuthorJane Austen
ISBN0192832972
Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative--they read much like the novels themselves. They bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern...
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
AuthorSusannah Carson
ISBN1400068053
For so many of us a Jane Austen novel is much more than the epitome of a great read. It is a delight and a solace, a challenge and a reward, and perhaps even an obsession. For two centuries Austen has enthralled readers. Few other authors can claim as many fans or as much devotion. So why are we so fascinated...
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
AuthorEdward Copeland
ISBN0521498678
Leading scholars present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Jane Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world, and of present-day critical discourse. Beside discussions of Austen's novels and letters there are essays on religion, politics, class-consciousness, publishing...
Jane Austen: A Life
AuthorDavid Nokes
ISBN0520216067
I'll give Jane Austen: A Life one thing - up until I read this I had no idea that a biography could be such a thing as TOO THOROUGH.
Because it is. Jane Austen did not leave much in the way of assets for future biographers. Or to be more accurate, she might have done but her sister Cassandra destroyed the...
The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
AuthorNatalie Tyler
ISBN0141001925
Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed passion for her timeless stories of romance, family relations, and foibles of human nature. Today she is more popular than ever. Natalie Tyler captures the essence of this enthusiasm in a book that shuns obscure academic approaches and provides...
Searching for Jane Austen
AuthorEmily Auerbach
ISBN0299201848
    Searching for Jane Austen demolishes with wit and vivacity the often-held view of "Jane," a decorous maiden aunt writing her small drawing-room stories of teas and balls. Emily Auerbach presents a different Jane Austen—a brilliant writer who, despite the obstacles facing women of her...
Why Jane Austen?
AuthorRachel M. Brownstein
ISBN0231153902
From the first publication of Pride and Prejudice to recent film versions of her life and work, Jane Austen has continued to provoke controversy and inspire fantasies of peculiar intimacy. Whether celebrated for her realism, proto-feminism, or patrician gentility, imagined as a subversive or a...
Jane Austen For Dummies
AuthorJoan Elizabeth Klingel Ray
ISBN0470008296
Explains Austen's methods, motivations, and morals

The fun and easy way(r) to understand and enjoy Jane Austen

Want to know more about Jane Austen? This friendly guide gives the scoop on her life, works, and lasting impact on our culture. It chronicles the events of her brief life,...
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
AuthorClaire Harman
ISBN1847672949
Jane's Fame tells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation...
In the Garden with Jane Austen
AuthorKim Wilson
Bringing Jane Austen's gardens--real and fictional--to life with excerpts from her novels and letters, period songs, poetry, and illustrations, this charming recollection offers tips for creating English gardens alongside Austen. This lavishly illustrated exploration with color photographs...
Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author
AuthorMaggie Lane
ISBN1780972873
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the world's most popular novelists, a sharp and witty writer whose stories enchant on their own and in numerous film and TV adaptations. Jane Austen's World takes a look at the woman behind the literature, revealing her private life and...
A Portrait Of Jane Austen
AuthorDavid Cecil
ISBN0141390328
The late 18th century world in which Jane Austen lived was one that combined good sense, elegant manners, intelligence and piety with a liberal dash of spirited fun. Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels, and other people's memories of her, David Cecil sets out to "reconstruct and depict her living...
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
AuthorWilliam Austen-Leigh
ISBN1406727717
Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published "Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters. A Family Record" (1913). The book lovingly details Jane's birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life,...
Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury
AuthorRebecca Dickson
ISBN1435104684
In the minds of fans and scholars alike, Jane Austen has never grown old. Now more than ever, Jane Austen is a presence in pop culture—a major accomplishment for someone who published her books anonymously all her life. Who was Jane Austen? We have only a couple of sketches and letters to tell us about...
Jane Austen's Charlotte: Her Fragment of a Last Novel, Completed by Julia Barrett
AuthorJulia Barrett
ISBN0871319713
Charlotte, Julia Barrett’s continuation of Jane Austen's Sanditon I found to be very disappointing. The plot (or lack there of) was all over the place once Barrett picked up the story. She did a great deal of explaining characters’ motives and mental states instead showing them really accomplish...
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades Horrible Blunders
AuthorJosephine Ross
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane Austen's young niece, sent her a novel for ""literary comment," Jane loved everything...
Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morrison
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679777539
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Bronte's Villette, George Elliot's Daniel Deronda, Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Iris Murdoch's...
Netherfield Park Revisited
AuthorRebecca Ann Collins
ISBN1402211554
The third book in the bestselling Pride and Prejudice sequel series from Australia.

"A very readable and believable tale for readers who like their romance with a historical flavor."
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