Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Legacies
2 Home
3 Scenes
4 The Good Apprentice
5 History
6 Love and Art
7 Place
8 Ways of Escape
9 Money
10 Work
11 The World
12 The Body
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Jon Spence is an American and was educated at King's College, London University. He has lived abroad for many years and now divides his time between London and Sydney. He is the editor of A Century of Wills from Jane Austen's Family and Jane Austen's Brother Abroad: The Grand Tour Journals of Edward Austen. He acted as Historical Consultant on the film Becoming Jane.
Mention in The Bookseller
'It is the small incidents that Jon Spence puts under the
microscope in his entertaining and sensitive biography.'
'Jon Spence is painstaking, delicate, full of insight - a somehow
fitting, friendly biographer.' ~ Joceline Bury, Jane
Austen's Regency World Magazine
*Joceline Bury*
'Jon Spence's book has all the virtues of a well-researched and
original study. Hard to write anything new about Jane Austen these
days, but Spence, in his own quiet and unobtrusive way, has
done it.' ~ John Bayley
*John Bayley*
"Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of her
falling in love with the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy."
*Lucy Whitson, Evening Express*
Review in Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, October 2007
"Fascinating...full of details that add color and texture to what
we know of Austen." --The Record-Courier
*Mary Louise Ruehr*
"Spence meticulously unpacks the evidence available to him...and
lays the probablilities before us in writing that is charged with
its own kind of electricity. His great achievement is that by the
end of Becoming Jane Austen it is indeed possible to see how Jane
became Jane Austen, the great writer of English literature."
*Sydney Morning Herald*
mention in 'Books on Radio'
*The Bookseller*
'A delightful book ... I have enjoyed it immensely.'
*John Bayley CBE, Writer and Literary Critic*
'Jon Spence's 'Becoming Jane Austen' is one of the best half-dozen
books published on Austen in the last quarter century.' 'This is a
book full of wisdom about [Jane Austen] and her art.' Joseph
Wiesenfarth, JASNA News
*Joseph Wiesenfarth*
'Becoming Jane Austen' is a good, traditional biography. Clearly
written, jargon-free and pleasant to read, it covers familiar
ground without any sense of fatigue and makes the most of the
material.' ~ Peter Washington, The Literary Review
*Peter Washington*
'Jon Spence has given us the most cogent portrait of Jane Austen's
literary life to date.' ~ Julia Barrett, author of 'Presumption',
'The Third Sister' and 'Jane Austen's "Charlotte"', British
Heritage Magazine
*British Heritage Magazine*
Title mentioned, April 2007
*Observer*
"This biography does uncover some interesting facts about the
novelist's antecedents and family, showing them to be just as
obsessed with fortune and gentility as the Dashwoods and the
Bennets."
*Tablet, The*
Mention in The Bookseller
'It is the small incidents that Jon Spence puts under the
microscope in his entertaining and sensitive biography.' 'Jon
Spence is painstaking, delicate, full of insight - a somehow
fitting, friendly biographer.' ~ Joceline Bury, Jane Austen's
Regency World Magazine -- Joceline Bury
'Jon Spence's book has all the virtues of a well-researched and
original study. Hard to write anything new about Jane Austen these
days, but Spence, in his own quiet and unobtrusive way, has done
it.' ~ John Bayley -- John Bayley
"Becoming Jane Austen gives the fullest account we have of her
falling in love with the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy." --
Lucy Whitson, Evening Express
Review in Eighteenth Century Current Bibliography, October 2007
"Fascinating...full of details that add color and texture to what
we know of Austen." --The Record-Courier -- Mary Louise Ruehr
"Spence meticulously unpacks the evidence available to him...and
lays the probablilities before us in writing that is charged with
its own kind of electricity. His great achievement is that by the
end of Becoming Jane Austen it is indeed possible to see how Jane
became Jane Austen, the great writer of English literature." --
Sydney Morning Herald
mention in 'Books on Radio' -- The Bookseller
'A delightful book ... I have enjoyed it immensely.' -- John Bayley
CBE, Writer and Literary Critic
'Jon Spence's 'Becoming Jane Austen' is one of the best half-dozen
books published on Austen in the last quarter century.' 'This is a
book full of wisdom about [Jane Austen] and her art.' Joseph
Wiesenfarth, JASNA News -- Joseph Wiesenfarth
'Becoming Jane Austen' is a good, traditional biography. Clearly
written, jargon-free and pleasant to read, it covers familiar
ground without any sense of fatigue and makes the most of the
material.' ~ Peter Washington, The Literary Review -- Peter
Washington
'Jon Spence has given us the most cogent portrait of Jane Austen's
literary life to date.' ~ Julia Barrett, author of 'Presumption',
'The Third Sister' and 'Jane Austen's "Charlotte"', British
Heritage Magazine -- Julia Barrett * British Heritage Magazine
*
Title mentioned, April 2007 -- Stephanie Cross * Observer *
"This biography does uncover some interesting facts about the
novelist's antecedents and family, showing them to be just as
obsessed with fortune and gentility as the Dashwoods and the
Bennets." * Tablet, The *
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