Deirdre Le Faye presents a comprehensive chronology of Jane Austen's life, featuring 15,000 entries compiled over forty years. This unique resource, sourced from unpublished documents, reveals Austen's activities and locations at specific moments. It also includes family trees for the Austen and Knight families, making it essential for scholars and fans alike.
In this richly illustrated book, Deirdre Le Faye explores and evokes country life in Jane Austen's day, offering new perspectives on her life and work.
The book offers an insightful exploration of Jane Austen's life and literary journey, primarily using her family's letters and diaries as sources. It delves into her personal experiences, relationships, and the context in which she wrote, providing a deeper understanding of her character and the influences that shaped her renowned works. Through this intimate portrayal, readers gain a unique perspective on the celebrated author beyond her novels.
A Literary Quizbook
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 quizprogresses to a level of greater difficulty, demanding close reading and interpretative deduction. What really motivates the characters, and what is going on beneath the surface of the story? Designed to amuse and divert, the questions and answers take the reader on an imaginative journey into theworld of Jane Austen, where hypothesis and speculation produce fascinating and unexpected insights. The questions are ingenious and fun, and the answers (located in the back of the book), in Sutherland's inimitable style, are fascinating. Completing the book guarantees a hugely improved knowledgeand appreciation of Austen. Whether you are an expert or enthusiast, So You Think You Know Jane Austen? guarantees you will know her much better after reading it.
This volume sets out to illustrate in both words and pictures the physical world of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, as alluded to by Austen, so that readers can enjoy her novels with greater understanding and insight. Deidre Le Faye goes beyond the Hollywood fiction to explore the real physical and social environment that formed the backdrop to Austen's classics. Assisted by contemporary archive material, the author revisits the places familiar to Jane Austen in her lifetime, from the grand country houses to humble villager's cottages, from detailed information on the furnishings to the arrangements for the servants
Illustrated throughout, this text gives a lively account of the main events of Jane Austen's life. It emphasises the importance of her family connections in developing the milieu from which she drew the inspiration for her novels