Jane Austen
  • Published: 10 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241963272
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $30.00

Jane Austen

A Life

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10 Aug 2012
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21 Jun 2012
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'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's' Philip Hensher

Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page' (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an 'authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a wide swathe of English society which brilliantly illuminates' the novelist (Victoria Glendinning).
  • Published: 10 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241963272
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.

Also by Claire Tomalin

A Life of My Own
Charles Dickens
The Young H.G. Wells
Thomas Hardy
The Invisible Woman
Samuel Pepys
Several Strangers
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Praise for Jane Austen

Claire Tomalin is the finest and most disinterested of biographers, because in her pages she has given Jane Austen her liberty

Hilary Mantel, New York Review of Books

A perfect biography: detailed, witty, warm

Dirk Bogarde, Sunday Telegraph

A book that radiates intelligence, wit and insight

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

As near perfect a Life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive

Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph