| Author | : Lucy Worsley |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 125013160X |
A trip back to the world of Jane Austen and the homes she lived in with noted historian Lucy Worsley.
At Home with Jane Austen
| Author | : Kim Wilson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2014-10-01 |
| Genre | : Country life |
| ISBN | : 9780711235465 |
Explore the homes which shaped our best-loved novelist. Jane Austen is among the most widely read and beloved authors in English literature. Her novels vividly depict the society and world in which she lived with humour and sharp social commentary. Jane’s own life and emotional experiences, deeply influenced by where she lived in southern England and her travels to other parts of the country, are reflected in her works and in the importance of house and home to her characters. With newly commissioned photographs of Chawton House and Steventon Church and village in Hampshire, and a wide range of contemporary illustration, Kim Wilson explores the homes which shaped this best-loved novelist, bringing to life the domestic settings of her great works.
The Jane Austen Society
| Author | : Natalie Jenner |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2020-05-26 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250248728 |
* INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People "Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society. A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
In the Garden with Jane Austen
| Author | : Kim Wilson |
| Publisher | : Frances Lincoln |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 9780711225947 |
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.”
Jane Austen
| Author | : William Austen-Leigh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 658 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Novelists, English |
| ISBN | : |
Jane Austen Quilts Inspired by Her Novels
| Author | : Karen Gloeggler |
| Publisher | : American Quilter's Society |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 9781604601039 |
"Quilting inspiration from the only quilt Jane Austen made and her six novels. Austen fan and quilter Karen Gloeggler went as far as England to see the only quilt known to have been made by Austen. She recreated Jane's quilt, and then created a quilt design representing each of Jane's six published novels resulting in 11 pieced quilts"--
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
| Author | : Helena Kelly |
| Publisher | : Icon Books |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2016-11-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1785781170 |
'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.
Martha Lloyd's Household Book
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2021-06-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781851245604 |
This is the first facsimile publication of 'Martha Lloyd's Household Book', the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen's closest friend. Martha's notebook is reproduced to scale in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other household books of the long eighteenth century. Martha Lloyd befriended a young Jane Austen and later lived with Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother at the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane wrote or revised her novels. Martha later married into the Austen family. Her collection features recipes and remedies handwritten during a period of over thirty years and includes the only surviving recipes from Mrs Austen and Captain Francis Austen, Jane's mother and brother. There are many connections between Martha's book and Jane Austen's writing, including white soup from 'Pride and Prejudice' and the author's favourites - toasted cheese and mead. The family, culinary and literary connections detailed in the introductory chapters of this work give a fascinating perspective on the time and manner in which both women lived, thanks to this extraordinary artefact passed down through the Austen family.
The Life of Jane Austen
| Author | : John Halperin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Novelists, English |
| ISBN | : 9780389204916 |
