lucy worsley jane austen at home a biography

* Kate Williams * A vivid portrait of Jane Austen. * Saturday Express * Brilliant and very moving, this book is a fascinating and original exploration of Jane Austen with lots of new material - Worsley brings Austen to life superbly, through her pages she is a flesh and blood woman, intelligent, powerful, contradictory, loving, loved. Truly, this is a dazzling exercise in persuasion, written with sense and sensibility. * Vogue magazine * Rarely, if ever, will you encounter a historian so in command of their material. * New York Times * A deep, prolifically researched dive into the houses, vacation homes, and schools where the author spent her life. * Literary Review * Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know. There's much intriguing historical detail. * Mail on Sunday * An interesting portrait of Georgian and Regency material culture.

Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley'sJane 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.Ī sprightly new take on Austen's life. 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. 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. 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'. 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.

'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.

Lucy worsley jane austen at home a biography