Jane Austen

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Review: Jane Austen at Home

Audiobooks, Non-fiction / By

Jane Austen at Home: A Biography Author: Lucy Worsley; Genre: Biography; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Ruth Redman; Publisher: Macmillan Audio (2017); My rating: . This wonderful book follows the Georgian author and her family through the many houses and homes they occupied. Worsley does an astonishing amount of clarification of the little data available about Jane …

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Review: The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet’s Pride and Prejudice

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The Forgotten Sister: Mary Bennet’s Pride and Prejudice by Jennifer Paynter A nice companion to the classic “Pride and Prejudice,” this is the story of the middle Bennet sister, Mary. Her tale is not all peaches and cream. Mary is not as lovely as Jane nor as loved by their father as Elizabeth. However, her mind …

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