A Portrait of Jane Austen

By: Cecil, David [Author]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Penguin Books, 1983Description: 207 pagesISBN: 9780140054118; 0140054111Subject(s): Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817DDC classification: 823 Summary: Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels and other people's memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out 'to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art'. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries.
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Drawing on Jane Austen's letters, novels and other people's memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out 'to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art'. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries.

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