Publisher, Naxos AudioBooks (August 2000)

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Highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and deception of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities…who was the person behind Emma, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and other unforgettable novels whose characters faced the challenges in the world of country gentry in Regency England?

Born in Stephenton, Hampshire England in 1775, the life of Jane Austen comes alive in this perceptive biography, showing the writer to be a human being with all her own interests, hopes and foibles.