I needed something to clear my palate after a rather dark novel recently and so I picked up Lady Susan. And then finally I couldn’t resist the temptation of a new Jane Austen. This second biography, despite its questionable title, is interestingly organised around objects in the author’s life.īut I had never read her ‘other works’, those novels or fragments that were not published in her lifetime: Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. And biographies: Jane Austen, a life by Claire Tomalin and The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne. I have read both P&P and Persuasion several times and her other novels at least twice. She had to wait until my adult reading years. In the event I didn’t do A Level English Literature either. I wasn’t much impressed with the MGM 1940 film they watched of P&P: the young girls all seemed to giggle a lot and were dressed like shepherdesses. While everyone else was reading Pride and Prejudice for O Level I was with a group who were fast tracked, avoiding O Level English Literature, to use the time to read more.
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