In her later years, Jane Austen made a patchwork quilt. She folded thousands of tiny scraps of fabric over diamond-shaped slips of paper and painstakingly stitched them together. Kate Evans employs these slivers of cloth to illustrate Jane Austen’s life story. Evans teases apart the threads that connect Austen’s beloved novels, the events of her life, and the fabric of society in Regency England.
*NEW* Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
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Patchwork is a major new work of graphic biography. Kate Evans has an unparalleled ability to marry drama, comedy, and historically immersive detail, bringing Austen’s story to life with fluid, dynamic artwork, at times embroidered onto cloth itself. The author’s love for Austen shines throughout. Her incredible eye for historical detail – panes of glass, bits of lace, hedge laying styles, the cut of a coat or the architecture of a Hampshire cottage – creates a captivating vision of Jane Austen’s world.
About the Author:
Kate Evans is a writer, cartoonist, illustrator and public speaker with thirty years’ experience. Her previous books include the highly acclaimed Red Rosa and the Orwell Prize–longlisted Threads. Patchwork is her eighth work of graphic non-fiction.
Additional information
| Weight | 350 g |
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| Dimensions | 274 × 210 mm |
