Bøker av Helen Amy

This book explores the lives of the men in Jane's life, her relationships, how typical they were of men of their time and their impact on her life and writing. It also considers how accurately the novels portray the lives of men and what they reveal of their author's views on the relationship between the sexes and the male domination of society.

"A portrait of London and its people - from the richest to the poorest--when it was the world's greatest and most quickly expanding city. Everyday Life in Victorian London explores the daily lives of adults and children, aristocracy and middle classes, working poor and the 'submerged tenth' underclass."--

Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation and fame grew in the nineteenth century. This is the life of Jane in the words of the people who knew her; it provides a fascinating insight into her life as a member of a close, loving family and her works as a novelist. The Jane Austen Files brings these memories, in the form of family diaries and memoirs by her nearest and dearest relatives, as well as all of Jane's own letters, together in one volume. This book also opens a window on to the England in which Jane Austen lived, and lovingly set her novels.

Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all important decisions. Helen Amy asks would Jane have become a novelist without Cassandra?