A Portrait of Jane Austen

FROM THE PUBLISHER: 

"More than a literary biography, with it's insights into family life, beliefs, standards, customs and conventions, tastes and fashions, is also a valuable contribution to social history".

Not much about Jane Austen's personality can be gleaned from her works.It is from her letters, from the evidence of the friends and relations, and above all from a knowledge of the kind of life led and ideas held by the society she was born into, that we are to know her.