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UK,Qrto HB+slipcase and facsimile ephemera enclosures,1st edn.[Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal.] Book Near MINT, s/case FINE-.} Bright,crisp,clean,glossy card slipcase with b/w+colour illustration with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present but some inevitable but minor scoring/indents to either panel of same.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original b/w+colour pictorial illustrated paper-covered boards with design/illustration repeated from the slipcase - no bumping,creasing nor nicks, tears or splits either and no scoring/ indents to boards of book. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - unread other than my own collation and its storage.UK,Qrto HB+ slipcase and facsimile ephemera enclosures, 1st edn,02-112pp [paginated] includes 22 chapters,3 card cilour decorated envelopes with ephemera facsimile enclosures/ documents etc - all present and called for,profuse contempraneous b/w+colour illustration reproductions,plus modern colour photographs,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] b/w cameo vignetted title page with C.E Brock colour illus frntis to its verso.
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Over the past 200 years - although never more than in recent decades - Jane Austen's sharp and witty novels have delighted a diverse and devoted international readership.With scant information about her life available,fans have a bottomless hunger for details about the woman behind the work.For such a renowned novelist,there is remarkably little direct material available,but this volume draws on archives for a truly insightful view.
'Jane Austen' feeds that appetite with background on her relationships with family and friends; on the contemporary attitudes that shaped Austen and her writing; and on the settings that inspired her and feature in her stories.The book traces her life and times; her relationships with family and friends; the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn shaped by her work; and the places where she lived, worked and set her novels,from rural Hampshire to fashionable Bath Spa. Chapters on each of her novels run throughout the book and place them in the context of her life.
Austenites will particularly treasure the 15 pieces of removable memorabilia,which include facsimiles of early manuscripts,a handwritten note outlining the profits from her novels,and a letter from Austen's father to the publisher Thomas Cadell that was returned with the words “Rejected by return of post” written on it.
Janet Todd is an authority on literature and culture of the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida and is currently the Professor of English Literature at Aberdeen University and the President of Lucy Cavendish College,Cambridge.She is a well-respected author of many books on women in literature,including 'Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life.' (W&N) and 'Jane Austen: In Context.' (Cambridge University Press).
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