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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

10 best books like A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (Susannah Carson): Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart, Jane Austen: A Life, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, 500 Great Books By Women, My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter, A Dance with Jane Austen: How a Novelist and Her Characters Went to the Ball, Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth about the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Literary Heroine, A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen

Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart
AuthorLaurel Ann Nattress
ISBN0345524969
Stories by: Lauren Willig • Adriana Trigiani • Jo Beverley • Alexandra Potter • Laurie Viera Rigler • Frank Delaney & Diane Meier • Syrie James • Stephanie Barron • Amanda Grange • Pamela Aidan • Elizabeth Aston • Carrie Bebris • Diana Birchall • Monica Fairview •...
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.

Most...
500 Great Books By Women
AuthorErica Bauermeister
ISBN0140175903
Here is an articulate guide to more than 500 books written by women, a unique resource that allows readers the joy of discovering new authors as well as revisiting familiar favorites. Organized by such themes as Art, Choices, Families, Growing Old, Growing Up, Places and Homes, Power, and Work, this...
My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park
AuthorCindy Jones
ISBN0062003976
A down on her luck woman goes on an Austen-inspired journey of self-discovery in Jones's middling debut. After Lily Berry loses her mother, gets dumped by her boyfriend, and is fired, she finds in her passion for all things Jane Austen (Jane, indeed, is Lily's imaginary friend) an escape route: she travels...
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
AuthorWilliam Deresiewicz
ISBN1594202885
Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma—and everything changed.

In this unique and lyrical book, Deresiewicz weaves the misadventures of...
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 Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers
AuthorMargaret C. Sullivan
ISBN1594747253
Jane Austen never goes out of style
Since the first publication of her six novels in the 19th century, she has delighted generations of fans with classic stories that have never changed—and countless covers that have. Jane Austen Cover to Cover compiles two centuries of design showcasing one...
101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth about the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Literary Heroine
AuthorPatrice Hannon
ISBN1598692844
You've read Emma. You own Pride and Prejudice. You love Sense and Sensibility. But do you know all there is to know about Jane Austen?

Find answers to questions such as:
Who was the Irishman who stole her heart?
Why was their affair doomed?
Which Austen heroine most resembled Jane?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey Into Adventure, Love, and Faith
AuthorLori Smith
ISBN1400073707
Step into a Life of Grace
At thirty-three, dealing with a difficult job and a creeping depression, Lori Smith embarked on a life-changing journey following the life and lore of Jane Austen through England.
With humor and spirit, Lori leads readers through landscapes Jane knew and loved-from...
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
AuthorJohn Mullan
ISBN1620400413
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing...
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane
AuthorAmy Elizabeth Smith
ISBN1402265859
"An illuminating insight...fascinating."--Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary

"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world--and...
Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House
AuthorSarah Waters
ISBN0061999067
Traumatized by her parents’ decision to give up the rectory in Hampshire where she grew up, Austen had been unable to write for ten years. During that time she moved from one rented property to another and it was only when her brother Edward offered her a permanent home in his Chawton House Estate that...
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