A Portrait of Jane Austen

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After a lifetime of devotion to the novels of Jane Austen, Oxford English professor and President of the Jane Austen Society Lord David Cecil felt the urge to share with the world his intimate knowledge of the world that Austen inhabited. The book, according to its author, is “an attempt, with the aid of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people’s memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art”. This is the first edition in very good condition.

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After a lifetime of devotion to the novels of Jane Austen, Oxford English professor and President of the Jane Austen Society Lord David Cecil felt the urge to share with the world his intimate knowledge of the world that Austen inhabited. The book, according to its author, is “an attempt, with the aid of material drawn from her letters, her novels and other people’s memories of her, to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art”. This is the first edition in very good condition.

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