Jane Austen : a life / David Nokes.
"In his compelling new biography, David Nokes has reexamined Austen's life and presents a picture of her which is less perfect but more full of dangerous excitement."--Inside cover.
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
1997.
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Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: Family secrets
- PART II: Steventon. Noisy and wild
- Growing up
- Partial, prejudiced & ignorant
- Profligate and shocking
- I say nothing
- PART III: Labyrinths. Conspiracy
- The wrong place
- Abuse everybody but me
- PART IV: Chawton. One's own concerns
- Wild beast
- A little disguised
- My own style
- Pictures of perfection.