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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
Lucy Worsley tells Jane Austen’s story with the wit and passion of the novelist herself. An excellent biography for any fan, she goes from home to home throughout the author’s life and proves that she was more complex than people thought. Worsley also recorded and released a new edition of the audiobook for Austen’s 250th birthday.
"Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know...with humor and poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished." —Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review
Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses--both grand and small--of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end ...
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