| Description |
446 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Jane Austen at Home' offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." - Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire. On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but - in the end - a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world's favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home. |
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Un libro imprescindible para todos los amantes de la escritora, donde se muestra su intimidad y entorno familiar, que permite entender mejor las historias y personajes de sus novelas. Un libro muy interesante para todos los amantes de la historia en general ya que es un gran retrato de la sociedad inglesa de fines del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX. |
| Language |
Text in Spanish, translated from the English. |
| Subject |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Homes and haunts -- England.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. (OCoLC)fst00032929
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Novelists, English -- Homes and haunts -- England.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Literary landmarks -- England.
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England -- In literature.
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Hogares y querencias -- Inglaterra.
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Novelistas -- Biografía.
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Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
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Literary landmarks. (OCoLC)fst00999933
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Novelists, English. (OCoLC)fst01039718
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Novelists, English -- Homes and haunts.
(OCoLC)fst01039724
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
Simó, Victoria, translator.
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Translation of (expression): Worsley, Lucy.
Jane Austen at home. Spanish.
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| Added Title |
Jane Austen at home. Spanish
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| ISBN |
8415732279 |
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9788415732273 |
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