Classic Biography: A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil

* Note on condition of book:
The outer cover is a bit worn away but the pages inside are still in excellent condition

Drawing on Jane Austen’s letters, novels and other people’s memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out ‘to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art’. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries. More than a literary biography, however, David Cecil’s Book, with its insights into family life, beliefs, standards, customs and conventions, tastes and fashions, is also a valuable contribution to social history.