Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge
In her lifetime, Jane Austen did her best to conform to the conventions of her day, and after her death the family touched up the picture.
But the real Jane Austen, who started as author at twelve years old, was something very different.
What depths of intellectual and moral despair must she have plumbed before she achieved the extraordinary moral vision that has been compared, with justice, to Chaucer's?
It was a fortunate thing for her family that the highly polished surface of the six novels, their sheer artistry concealing tension, makes it easy to miss the depth and bitterness of what they are often saying.
This is a book for those who have always loved Jane Austen, and for those who would like to know more about her.
Jane Aiken Hodge (December 4, 1917 - June 17, 2009) was an American-born British writer. Her novels include `Runaway Bride', `Escapade', `All for Love' and `One Way to Venice'.
All her novels seem to have been just reissued by Endeavour at modest prices. All for Love was previously entitled Savannah Purchase
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