The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen

A Beautifully Illustrated Account Of The Letters And Correspondence Of Jane Austen. It Has Been Said That Jane Austen The Woman And Jane Austen The Author Are All Of A Piece, And Nowhere Is This More Evident To The Lovers Of Her Novels Than In The Pages Of Her Letters. This Handsome Celebration Of AustenS Letters Is Illustrated With Portraits, Facsimile Letters, Topographical Engravings And Fashion Plates, All Helping To Bring To Life The World Jane Austen Inhabited. The Letters, With An Accompanying Commentary By Penelope Hughes-Hallett, Are Separated Into Six Periods Of Jane AustenS Life, Between The Years 1796, When She Was Twenty, And 1817, The Year Of Her Death. They Celebrate Jane AustenS Talent For Expressing Exactly What She Perceived, Making This An Illuminating Companion To Her Novels. Although The Book Follows A Broadly Chronological Scheme, The Letters Are Arranged Round Visual Themes, Including The Hampshire Countryside, Social Life In Bath And London, Domestic Pursuits, Paying Visits And Travelling By Carriage. The Author, Who Was Born In Jane AustenS Hampshire Village Of Steventon, Lectured On English Literature For The Open University And The Oxford University Department Of External Studies. An Exquisite Selection Of Jane AustenS Letters, Reissued In Hardback For 2019. Beautifully Illustrated Throughout With Contemporary Painting And Engravings Of Regency England. An Accompanying Commentary By Penelope Hughes-Hallott Make This An Illuminating Companion To The Novels Of Jane Austen.