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Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels and other people's memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out 'to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art'. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries.
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A Portrait of Jane Austen, David Cecil
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- 1980
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- Title
- A Portrait of Jane Austen
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Cecil
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Publisher
- 1980
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140054111
- ISBN13
- 9780140054118
- Category
- About Literature, Biographies
- Description
- Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels and other people's memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out 'to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art'. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries.