JANE AUSTEN: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY by Rebecca Dickson New

Rebecca Dickson Five Mile Press, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 157 pages JANE AUSTEN: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY takes you inside the author's world - the hardships she faced, the loves she lost, and the keen sense of irony that kept her going. In the minds of fans and scholars alike, Jane Austen has never grown old. Now more than ever, Jane Austen is a presence in pop culture - a major accomplishment for someone who published her books anonymously all her life. Who was Jane Austen? We have only a couple of sketches and letters to tell us about her, but from this slim thread hangs a library's worth of speculation, including countless Hollywood interpretations of her life and her books.