Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author
7 best books like Jane Austen's World: The Life and Times of England's Most Popular Author (Maggie Lane): The Princess Diarist, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History, Jane Austen's Letters, The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
| Author | Carrie Fisher |
| ISBN | 0399173595 |
The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.
When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first...
| Author | Deirdre Le Faye |
| ISBN | 0711222789 |
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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Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
| Author | Emma Campbell Webster |
| ISBN | 1594482586 |
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Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome.
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
| Author | Sam Maggs |
| ISBN | 1594749256 |
You may think you know women’s history pretty well, but have you ever heard of. . .
· Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment for leprosy—only to have the credit taken by a man?
· Mary Sherman Morgan, the rocket scientist whose liquid fuel compounds blasted...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0192832972 |
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...
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 0151010331 |
The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance...
| Author | Susannah Carson |
| ISBN | 1400068053 |
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...
