United Kingdom, Vintage, 1999
Jane Austen’s brother Henry that said "My dear Sister's life was not a life of events," ''Of events her life was singularly barren,'' Jane's nephew once observed, ''few changes and no great crisis ever broke the smooth current of its course.''
However, biographer Claire Tomalin shows that, on the contrary,
Austen's brief life was more worldly than supposed, and ''full of events, of distress and even trauma,''
Tomalin has filled the gaps, creating a portrait of the woman
and the writer that produced such sophisticated, wickedly funny and well loved books.
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