In this new biography of Jane Austen, David Nokes plays master sleuth and storyteller in presenting the great novelist "not in the modest pose which her family determined for her, but rather, as she most frequently presented herself, as rebellious, satirical, and wild."
Jane Austen A Life
About the Book
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Family Secrets
Chapter 1 Family Secrets
PART II Steventon
Chapter 2 Noisy and Wild
Chapter 3 Growing Up
Chapter 4 Partial, Prejudiced & Ignorant
Chapter 5 Profligate and Shocking
Chapter 6 I Say Nothing
PART III Labyrinths
Chapter 7 Conspiracy
Chapter 8 The Wrong Place
Chapter 9 Abuse Everybody but Me
PART IV Chawton
Chapter 10 One's Own Concerns
Chapter II Wild Beast
Chapter 12 A Little Disguised
Chapter 13 My Own Style
Chapter 14 Pictures of Perfection
Notes
Index