Jane Austen in 41 objects / Kathryn Sutherland.

Oxford : Bodleian Library Publishing, 2025.

224 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm

More than 200 years after Jane Austen's death at the age of just 41, we are still looking for clues about this extraordinary writer's life. What might we learn if we take a glimpse inside the biographies of objects that crossed her path in life and afterwards - things that she cherished or cast aside, or that furnished the world in which she moved, or that have themselves been inspired by her legacy? Among objects described in this book are a teenage notebook, a muslin shawl, a wallpaper fragment, a tea caddy, the theatrical poster for a play she attended and the dining-room grate at Chawton Cottage where she lived. Poignantly, the last manuscript page of her unfinished novel and a lock of hair kept by her devoted sister, Cassandra, are also featured.

9781851246267 (hbk)

823.7
JA 823.7 (SUT)

English

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