Living with Jane Austen

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Pub Date Mar 20 2025 | Archive Date Mar 06 2025

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Description

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that "we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be." Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens, we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels.

Written to publish ahead of Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how - for over half a century - Austen has inspired and challenged its author through different phases of her life. Part personal memoir, part expert interaction with all the letters, manuscripts and published novels, Janet Todd's book reveals what living with Jane Austen has meant to her and what it might also mean to others.

Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen's work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humor, beauty and the meaning of home.

Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that "we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be." Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when...


Advance Praise

“Sharing a mind is as exciting as sharing a bed. In this gentle, witty, semi-memoir, Janet Todd reveals her eccentric encounters with books and shows us why the novels of Jane Austen should matter to all of us now.” Miriam Margolyes

“This is a book for all Jane Austen’s readers by one of the very best of those readers.” Richard Cronin, author of Byron’s Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century

“A timely, moving and masterful book by one of the English-speaking world’s foremost literary historians and a trailblazing scholar-heroine in Jane Austen studies.” Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen

“Sharing a mind is as exciting as sharing a bed. In this gentle, witty, semi-memoir, Janet Todd reveals her eccentric encounters with books and shows us why the novels of Jane Austen should matter to...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781009569316
PRICE $25.95 (USD)
PAGES 185

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