Drawing extensively on Austen's correspondence, this biography--the first full-length biography to appear since Elizabeth Jenkins's "Jane Austen" of 1938--draws in detail a rich psychological portrait of the novelist that illuminates the genesis and the substance of her works

The Life of Jane Austen

Halperin, Professor John

Biographies & Memoirs

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Featuring a new preface by the author, this paperback edition of John Halperin's acclaimed and controversial biography moves beyond the usually vague account of Austen's life and away from the serene and untroubled image of Austen created by a protective family. In The Life ofJane Austen, Halperin reveals a robust, vigorous, and at times difficult woman with a large and diverse circle of family and acquaintances. He documents her troubled relationship with a hypochondriacal mother and her frank dislike of the sister-in-law who usurped her childhood home, sheds new light on the shadowy existence of a retarded older brother, and sets forth in greater detail than ever before the number and nature of Austen's relations to her suitors, the romantic passages of her life, and her attitude about childbearing.
Making fuller use of Austen's correspondence than previous biographers, Halperin shows us the costs exacted on a sensitive and critical personality by a society--and, frequently, a family--that paid too little attention to the predicament of unmarried women, especially those with inadequate financial means.

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The Life of Jane Austen

The Life of Jane Austen

The Life of Jane Austen