The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things, Paula Byrne

Buy the book here: http://amzn.to/VDMLjN Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. Each chapter begins from an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen's life and work—a silhouette, a vellum notebook, a topaz cross, a laptop writing box, a royalty cheque, a bathing machine, and many more. Published to coincide with the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice, this lively and scholarly biography brings Austen dazzlingly into the twenty-first century.