Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

9 best books like Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Claire Harman): Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, Jane Austen's Letters, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth about the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Literary Heroine, A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen, Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury, Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades Horrible Blunders, Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels

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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Jane Austen's Letters

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...

101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth about the World's Most Intriguing Romantic Literary Heroine

Author	Patrice Hannon
ISBN	1598692844

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 Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections

Author	J.E. Austen Leigh
ISBN	0192840746

James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all...

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

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...

Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury

Author	Rebecca Dickson
ISBN	1435104684

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 Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades Horrible Blunders

Author

Josephine 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...

Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury

Author	Rachel Billington
ISBN	1402212070

" ... the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union."

Thus the last line of Jane Austen's Emma. A year later, Emma and Knightley are still living at Hartfield, surrounded...

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom

Author	Deborah Yaffe
ISBN	0547757794

A couple years ago, when I was in an MFA program at Umass, I was taking a walk with A, a fellow transmasculine person in the program, and talking about my love of Jane Austen. A said she'd never read Austen, grumbling that she'd always seen Austen as a "women's writer" or even worse, a writer for "girls."

I...