Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.
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The Knight family’s recipes were passed down to Edward Austen Knight and, as a regular diner at ‘the Great House’, Jane Austen may well have tasted some of its culinary delights.
From the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self and Charles Dickens: A Life, this celebrated biography is the definitive account of Mary Wollstonecraft’s life.
This is a beautiful and moving novel written by Janet Todd, a novelist and internationally renowned scholar, known especially for her biographies of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Aphra Behn.
Explore the houses open to the public that were once home to some of the finest writers and musicians in Britain and Ireland. This Illustrated map shows where to find the birthplaces, lifelong residences or retreats where artists found peace and inspiration.
The Watsons by Jane Austen & Rose Servitova is the tale of four sisters as they seek security, love and happiness in a world where the most important decisions affecting their lives, are not always theirs to make. It is a book about relationships, freedom and personal empowerment.
In her introduction to this new edition, Janet Todd sets Jane Austen's ebullient final fragment in the context of Regency culture, of thrusting capitalism, health fads and miracle diets and cures.