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101 Things You Didnt Know About Jane Austen
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Book Synopsis 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen by : Patrice Hannon
Download or read book 101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen written by Patrice Hannon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the long-kept secrets of literature's leading lady You've read Emma. You own Pride and Prejudice. You love Sense and Sensibility. But do you know all there is to know about Jane Austen? Find answers to such questions as: Who was the Irishman who stole her heart? Why was their affair doomed? Which Austen heroine most resembled Jane? Who were the real Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy? Why did Jane never marry? These fascinating secrets and much more are revealed in 101 Things You Didn't Know about Jane Austen. Romantic. Tragic. Mysterious. And you thought Austen's heroines led intriguing lives.
Book Synopsis Dear Jane Austen by : Patrice Hannon
Download or read book Dear Jane Austen written by Patrice Hannon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice delivered with sense and sensibility just in time for the major motion picture Becoming Jane Women have looked to Jane Austen’s heroines as models of appropriate behavior for nearly two centuries. Who better to understand the heart of a heroine than Austen? In this delightful epistolary “what if,” Austen serves as a “Dear Abby” of sorts, using examples from her novels and her life to counsel modern-day heroines in trouble, she also shares with readers a compelling drama playing out in her own drawing room. Witty and wise—and perfectly capturing the tone of the author of Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice—Dear Jane Austen is as satisfying as sitting down to tea with the novelist herself.
Book Synopsis 101 Amazing Facts about Jane Austen by : Jack Goldstein
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts about Jane Austen written by Jack Goldstein and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that when some of Jane Austen’s lesser-known work was sent to publishers in 2007 under a pseudonym it was rejected? Do you know in which radio sitcom she was once portrayed as a foul-mouthed and violent inhabitant of hell who even the devil was scared of? And what have zombies got to do with Pride and Prejudice? This fascinating book contains over one hundred facts about Jane Austen, organised into categories for easy reading. Whether you are studying Austen for a project or you are just interested in finding out more about the queen of regency romance, this is the book for you.
Book Synopsis Everybody's Jane by : Juliette Wells
Download or read book Everybody's Jane written by Juliette Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.
Book Synopsis Women Write Back by : Stephanie Mathilde Hilger
Download or read book Women Write Back written by Stephanie Mathilde Hilger and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire's Mahomet, Johnson's Rasselas, Goethe's Werther, and Rousseau's Julie. The analysis of these women's texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.
Download or read book Trifle Bearings written by Angela Traubel and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just another Jane Austen quote book. TRIFLE BEARINGS gives, for the first time, a comprehensive compilation of thoughts and sayings from ALL the writings of Jane Austen's major and minor works, unfinished narratives, Juvenilia and personal letters. Jane Austen's wit, astuteness and genius as an unsurpassed wordsmith comes alive in this charming volume that cleverly classifies these sayings into nineteen different categories and themes of life touched on by Jane Austen in her writings. The reader is also treated to additional supplements of a chronology of Jane Austen's writings, lists of recommended reading and web sites, and quotes by many famous people from all era's and walks of life on their opinions of Jane Austen and her work. Sure to gratify and charm the newest to the most advanced Jane Austen enthusiast. Angela Traubel is an unabashed Janeite living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. After graduating from the University of Arizona she relished her life of making a peaceful and loving home for her hard-working farmer husband, and three beautiful, now grown, children. The day when her husband brought home a video called SENSE AND SENSIBILITY an additional new love entered her life. She now spends her time seeing her children whenever she can, quilting, gardening, scrapbooking, and learning about and enjoying any and everything she can find on Jane Austen.
Book Synopsis 101 Amazing Facts about Jane Austen by : Jack Goldstein
Download or read book 101 Amazing Facts about Jane Austen written by Jack Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Did you know that when some of Jane Austen's lesser-known work was sent to publishers in 2007 under a pseudonym it was rejected? Do you know in which radio sitcom she was once portrayed as a foul-mouthed and violent inhabitant of hell who even the devil was scared of? And what have zombies got to do with Pride and Prejudice? This fascinating book contains over one hundred facts about Jane Austen, organised into categories for easy reading. Whether you are studying Austen for a project or you are just interested in finding out more about the queen of regency romance, this is the book for you.
Book Synopsis The Jane Austen Handbook by : Margaret Sullivan
Download or read book The Jane Austen Handbook written by Margaret Sullivan and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridgerton fans and Jane Austen neophytes will be bewitched, body and soul, by this fun, informative guide to the nuances of life in Regency England Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr. Darcy, but how should you let him know your intentions? Seek counsel from this charming guide to Jane Austen’s world. Its step-by-step instructions reveal the practicalities of life in Regency England, including sensible advice on: • How to behave at your first ball • How to ride sidesaddle • How to decline an unwanted marriage proposal • How to improve your estate • How to throw a dinner party —and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen’s time, The Jane Austen Handbook is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.
Book Synopsis The Night She Went Missing by : Kristen Bird
Download or read book The Night She Went Missing written by Kristen Bird and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great new voice in suspense...Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies who thrive on stories of deceit in the suburban world.” —J. T. Ellison, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Her Dark Lies "Pitch perfect suspense...The best debut I’ve read this year.” --Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author An intriguing and twisty domestic suspense about loyalty and deceit in a tight-knit Texas community where parents are known to behave badly and people are not always who they appear to be. Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children—and each other’s—for answers to questions they don’t want to ask. Each mother is sure she knows who is responsible, but they all have their own secrets to keep and reputations to protect. And the lies they tell themselves and each other may just have the potential to be lethal in this riveting debut.
Book Synopsis 101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein by : Cynthia Phillips
Download or read book 101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein written by Cynthia Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence. 101 Things You Didn’t Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientist and mathematician—including details about his personal life, scientific discoveries, interactions with his contemporaries, thoughts on war, religion, and politics, and his impact on the world since his death. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, information, or interesting and entertaining trivia, this book contains everything you need to know about Albert Einstein!
Book Synopsis The L.M. Montgomery Reader by : Benjamin Lefebvre
Download or read book The L.M. Montgomery Reader written by Benjamin Lefebvre and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery’s (1874–1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, it traces milestones and turning points such as adaptations for stage and screen, posthumous publications, and the development of Montgomery Studies as a scholarly field. Lefebvre’s introduction also considers Montgomery’s publishing history in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom at a time when her work remained in print not because it was considered part of a university canon of literature, but simply due to the continued interest of readers. The twenty samples of Montgomery scholarship included in this volume broach topics such as gender and genre, narrative strategies in fiction and life writing, translation, and Montgomery’s archival papers. They reflect shifts in Montgomery's critical reputation decade by decade: the 1960s, when a milestone chapter on Montgomery coincided with a second wave of texts seeking to create a canon of Canadian literature; the 1970s, in the midst of a sustained reassessment of popular fiction and of literature by women; the 1980s, when the publication of Montgomery’s life writing, which coincided with the broadcast of critically acclaimed television productions adapted from her fiction, radically altered how readers perceived her and her work; the 1990s, when a conference series on Montgomery began to generate a sustained amount of scholarship; and the opening years of the twenty-first century, when the field of Montgomery Studies became both international and interdisciplinary. This is the first book to consider the posthumous life of one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors.
Book Synopsis Mrs. Hurst Dancing and Other Scenes from Regency Life by : Diana Sperling
Download or read book Mrs. Hurst Dancing and Other Scenes from Regency Life written by Diana Sperling and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northanger Alibi written by Jenni James and published by Walnut Springs Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey finds Claire enjoying her first summer adventure away from home, where she tries to prove that the attractive Tony Russo is actually a vampire.
Book Synopsis A History of Women in 101 Objects by : Annabelle Hirsch
Download or read book A History of Women in 101 Objects written by Annabelle Hirsch and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed – even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations – and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a sixteenth century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived. Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.
Book Synopsis Jane Austen and Food by : Maggie Lane
Download or read book Jane Austen and Food written by Maggie Lane and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the significance of the pyramid of fruit which confronted Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley? Or of the cold beef eaten by Willoughby on his journey of repentance to see Marianne? Why is it so appropriate that the scene of Emma's disgrace should be a picnic, and how do the different styles of housekeeping in Mansfield Park engage with the social issues of the day? While Jane Austen does not luxuriate in cataloguing meals in the way of Victorian novelists, food in fact plays a vital part in her novels. Her plots, being domestic, are deeply imbued with the rituals of giving and sharing meals. The attitudes of her characters to eating, to housekeeping and to hospitality are important indicators of their moral worth. In a practice both economical and poetic, Jane Austen sometimes uses specific foodstuffs to symbolise certain qualities at heightened moments in the text. This culminates in the artistic triumph of Emma, in which repeated references to food not only contribute to the solidity of her imagined world, but provide an extended metaphor for the interdependence of a community. In this original, lively and well-researched book, Maggie Lane not only offers a fresh perspective on the novels, but illuminates a fascinating period of food history, as England stood on the brink of urbanisation, middle-class luxury, and change in the role of women. Ranging over topics from greed and gender to mealtimes and manners, and drawing on the novels, letters and Austen family papers, she also discusses Jane Austen's own ambivalent attitude to the provision and enjoyment of food.
Book Synopsis In the Garden with Jane Austen by : Kim Wilson
Download or read book In the Garden with Jane Austen written by Kim Wilson and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen loved a garden. She took a keen interest in flower gardening and kitchen gardening alike. This book strolls through the sorts of gardens that Jane Austen would have known and visited: the gardens of the great estates, cottage gardens, gardens in town, and public gardens and parks. Some of the gardens she owned or knew exist still in some form today; among the gardens highlighted is the restored garden at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, complete with a sample planting plan of the flowers grown there now. The book also includes touring information for gardens featured in film adaptations of the novels. With lush photos, social history, excerpts from the novels, information on her life, and period drawings, this book brings Georgian and Regency gardens and Jane Austen’s world to life. In the Garden with Jane Austen captures the essence and beauty of the traditional English garden. As the heroine of Mansfield Park Fanny Price observes, “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”
Book Synopsis Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by : Helena Kelly
Download or read book Jane Austen, the Secret Radical written by Helena Kelly and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, Guardian Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right. In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
