Jane Austen

Novelist Jane Austen was a Hampshire local who spent the last weeks of her life just a few doors down from P&G Wells. Her family held an account at the shop when it was run by John Burdon and she wrote about books purchased from "Burdon" in letters to her sister Cassandra.
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  • James Cawthorn, George Austen and the Curious Case of the Schoolboy Who Was Kill

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    James Cawthorn, George Austen and the Curious Case of the Schoolboy Who Was Kill

    This book focuses on the twenty-year tenure of James Cawthorn – one of the most significant headmasters in the history of Tonbridge School.

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  • Bibliographic Austen

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    Bibliographic Austen

    The ‘Biographic’ series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world’s greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men and women whose lives have most influenced our own.

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  • Jane Austen and Marriage

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    Jane Austen and Marriage

    The question of marriage lies at the centre of Jane Austen’s novels. The issues bound up in the pursuit of love, happiness, money and status were those of her day and informed the plots and morals of her work. This book explores the ways in which these themes manifest themselves in Jane Austen’s life and fiction.

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  • Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen is one of the most extensively read writers in English literature, renowned around the world for her much-loved romantic novels. Little is often known about this brilliant author, yet in this absorbing collection of stories and trivia readers will find answers to the amazing and extraordinary aspects of Austen’s life, work, and legacy.

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  • Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

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    Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

    Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don’t confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers’ enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don’t read her properly – we haven’t been reading her properly for 200 years. ‘Jane Austen, The Secret Radical’ puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.

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  • The Jane Austen Writers’ Club

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    The Jane Austen Writers’ Club

    Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the landscape of fiction forever, and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and witty as the day her books were first published. Now, with this illuminating and entertaining book, you can learn Jane Austen’s methods, tips, and tricks – and how to live well as a writer. Filled with useful exercises, illustrations, and illuminating quotations from the great author’s novels and letters, this book explores the techniques of plotting and characterisation, through to dialogue and suspense.

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  • Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen

    Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz? In this graceful introduction to the author’s life and works, Fiona Stafford offers a fresh and accessible perspective, discussing Austen’s six astonishing novels in the context of their time.

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  • Dress-Up Jane Austen

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    Dress-Up Jane Austen

    Discover Jane Austen’s Regency era through fashion! Cut out the fourteen colourful costumes, for both women and men, then dress up the dolls to explore the fashions of Jane Austen’s day.

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  • The Jane Austen Collection

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    The Jane Austen Collection

    A beautiful box set of the works of Jane Austen, containing some of literature’s greatest love stories

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  • Jane Austen’s England

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    Jane Austen’s England

    It is impossible to fully appreciate Jane Austen without experiencing the landscapes which inspired her. Jane Austen’s England – the first book of its kind – takes the reader on a series of walking tours into the very heart of her world. These fifteen picturesque walks describe the country houses, churches, great estates, and elegant cities that were the settings for her novels and introduce the reader to the real-life people she met, many of whom became characters in her books. This is an indispensable guide for all Austen fans, some of the sights include Godmersham House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, the view from Box Hill, scene of the ‘exploring party’ in Emma, Lyme Regis’ treacherous Cobb in Persuasion, Bath’s Assemmbly Rooms in Northanger Abbey, and many more.

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  • Jane Austen At Home

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    Jane Austen At Home

    This telling of the story of Jane’s life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison.

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  • Jane Austen

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    Jane Austen

    Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Jane Austen tells the inspiring story of one of the most loved British writers of all time.
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