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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography Hardcover – Illustrated, July 11 2017

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" Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire 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 of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but--in the end--a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world’s favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.

• Print length 400 pages
• Language English
• Publisher St. Martin's Press
• Publication date July 11 2017
• Dimensions 16.76 x 3.43 x 24.28 cm
• ISBN-10 125013160X
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"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 " ...A personal look inside the life of a singular woman.... [the] intimate spaces in both this book and in Austen’s original works fly off the page in full-fledged color." ―Madeleine Luckel, Vogue "Worsley writes with a historian's acumen and a Janeite's passion...This volume is sure to delight Austen fans."― Library Journal, Starred Review "Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Press; Illustrated edition (July 11 2017)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 125013160X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250131607
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 590 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.76 x 3.43 x 24.28 cm
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Lucy worsley.

Dr Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the charity which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, and other historic places. (Yes, this is a fabulous job, but no, you can't have it. Bribes have been offered, and refused.)

After studying history at Oxford, she worked at a minor stately home called Milton Manor, near Abingdon, where she tidied up the archives, gave guided tours and fed the llamas. After that she became an Inspector of Ancient Monuments at English Heritage, doing historical research at Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire: this led to her first book, 'Cavalier', about a dissolute Royalist duke. Since 2003, while working at Historic Royal Palaces, she has continued publishing historical non-fiction for adults and historical fiction for 11-14 years olds. She also presents history documentaries for the BBC.

Do please check out @Lucy_Worsley, or visit her on Facebook.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser 'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity.' Amanda Foreman Lucy Worsley 'is a great scene-setter for this tale of triumph and heartbreak.' Sunday Times On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world. This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. A woman who far from being a lonely spinster in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy.

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About the author

Lucy worsley.

Dr Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the charity which looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, and other historic places. (Yes, this is a fabulous job, but no, you can't have it. Bribes have been offered, and refused.)

After studying history at Oxford, she worked at a minor stately home called Milton Manor, near Abingdon, where she tidied up the archives, gave guided tours and fed the llamas. After that she became an Inspector of Ancient Monuments at English Heritage, doing historical research at Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire: this led to her first book, 'Cavalier', about a dissolute Royalist duke. Since 2003, while working at Historic Royal Palaces, she has continued publishing historical non-fiction for adults and historical fiction for 11-14 years olds. She also presents history documentaries for the BBC.

Do please check out @Lucy_Worsley, or visit her on Facebook.

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JANE AUSTEN AT HOME

A biography.

by Lucy Worsley ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 11, 2017

A charming, well-researched journey to “Austen-land.”

A fresh, spirited look at the beloved author by a self-proclaimed “Janeite.”

British historian Worsley ( Maid of the King’s Court , 2017, etc.), chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces, is steeped in the world of Georgian England, where Jane Austen (1775-1817) lived, wrote, and set her novels. In a biography as brightly entertaining as it is erudite, the author offers a richly detailed portrait of Austen, her various homes, and her social context. In what she admits is a “crowded field” of Austen biographies and critical studies, Worsley takes a wry, sometimes-irreverent perspective, grounded in a deep knowledge of Austen’s fiction; letters to, by, and about her; and seemingly every bit of scholarship, criticism, and biographical inquiry relevant to her. Although her sources are abundant, there are still gaps, and Worsley occasionally resorts to “would have,” “might have,” and “it is easy to imagine” as she narrates Austen’s life. Nevertheless, she is so reliable a historian that her speculations seem well-founded. She reads Austen’s correspondence with uncommon empathy, discovering “dense detail of domestic life” in letters that some biographers have dismissed. Investigating Austen’s possible suitors, Worsley cautions against treating her subject “like just another modern person, reacting to the situations in exactly the same way as the writer would him or herself.” An 18th-century woman might have far different feelings about romance, she argues; Austen, she believes, had a series of suitors, one of whom proposed marriage. Austen accepted him only to change her mind the next day. Her writing career had a slow start, but Pride and Prejudice , published in 1813, garnered “terrific sales” and strong reviews, becoming “a wild, noteworthy, enviable success” that buoyed Austen’s confidence and made her a celebrity among her neighbors. Worsley gives sharply drawn pictures of domesticity in the many homes that Austen inhabited, including her family’s rented houses in Bath and residences where she, her widowed mother, and sister visited as guests before they settled in Chawton, a site of pilgrimage for Janeites.

Pub Date: July 11, 2017

ISBN: 978-1-250-13160-7

Page Count: 384

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: April 16, 2017

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2017

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Jane Austen at Home

I am disappointed by the claims made in this week’s Private Eye.

The facts and interpretations paralleled between my book  Jane Austen at Home , and Paula Byrne’s excellent  Jane Austen A Life In Small Things , which I reference in my extensive footnotes, are not novel, are not unique to Byrne’s work, and would appear in any up-to-date, well-researched biography of Jane Austen.

‘My’ Jane Austen, in  Jane Austen at Home,  is fresh, up-to-date, and shaped by the most recent scholarly debate.  But most of all, she’s personal.  Every word of her is written with integrity, conviction and love.

Private Eye have more than once printed the claim that Judith Flanders was not paid upfront for her work as historical consultant on the 2013 BBC Four series A Very British Murder.  This is also inaccurate and should have been checked.

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