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A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections

10 best books like A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections (J.E. Austen Leigh): Jane Austen: A Life, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, The World of Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Captain Wentworth's Persuasion: Jane Austen's Classic Retold Through His Eyes, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories, The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, Jane Austen: A Life

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...
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 Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen
AuthorRichard Jenkyns
ISBN0199276617
Jane Austen's work was a true triumph of the comic spirit--of deep comedy, rising from the heart of human life. In A Fine Brush on Ivory, Richard Jenkyns takes us on an amiable tour of Austen's fictional world, opening a window on some of the great works of world literature.
Focusing largely on Pride...
Captain Wentworth's Persuasion: Jane Austen's Classic Retold Through His Eyes
AuthorRegina Jeffers
ISBN1569757763
Insightful and dramatic, this novel recreates the original style, themes, and sardonic humor of Jane Austen’s novel while turning the entire tale on its head in a most engaging fashion. Readers hear Captain Wentworth’s side of this tangled story in the revelation of his thoughts and emotions....
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...
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
AuthorJenny Uglow
ISBN0374147515
Winner of the Portico Prize
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's...
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...
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...
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'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...
The Jane Austen Cookbook
AuthorMaggie Black
ISBN0771014171
Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large and sociable family. Brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends and acquaintances were always coming and going, which offered numerous occasions for convivial eating and drinking. One of Jane’s dearest friends, Martha Lloyd, lived with...
So You Think You Know Jane Austen?
AuthorJohn Sutherland
ISBN0192804405
How well do you really know your favorite author? In this new book, ace literary detective turned quizmaster John Sutherland and Austen buff Deirdre Le Faye challenge you to find out. Starting with easy, factual questions that test how well you remember a novel and its characters, the quiz progresses...
Dinner with Mr. Darcy: Recipes inspired by the novels of Jane Austen
AuthorPen Vogler
ISBN1782490566
Food is an important theme in Jane Austen's novels-it is used as a commodity for showing off, as a way of showing kindliness among neighbors, as part of the dynamics of family life, and-of course-for comic effect. In Dinner with Mr Darcy, Pen Vogler takes authentic recipes from the period, inspired by...
Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen's Masterpiece
AuthorSusannah Fullerton
ISBN0760344361
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure,” Elizabeth Bennet tells Fitzwilliam Darcy in one of countless exhilarating scenes in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The remembrance of Austen’s brilliant work has given its readers pleasure for 200 years and is certain to do...
Jane Austen: Her Life
AuthorPark Honan
ISBN1904435815
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters written by members of the Austen family,this sympathetic and probing biography enters the private world of Jane Austen,  revealing experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,...
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen
AuthorSarah Jane Downing
ISBN0747807671
The broader Regency period 1795-1820 stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history unlike anything that went before or after. It was the most naked period since Ancient Greece and before the 1960s, and for the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became...
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