To mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth
Claire Harman’s celebrated study of the great novelist’s life and afterlife now available as an audiobook:
Part biography and part cultural history, this celebrated book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen’s life as a writer, but also of her literary legacy. Award-winning biographer Claire Harman traces the growth of Jane Austen’s fame and the changing status of her work, a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect. A landmark study that doesn’t just tell a fascinating story, but is essential reading for anyone interested in Austen’s life, works and remarkably potent fame.
Available now from Audible, Spotify, Apple Books, BookBeat, Kobo, Libro.fm and many more
“Wonderful.. not only scholarly but indecently entertaining… her prose rings with good sense, affection and humour”
Sam Leith, Daily Mail
“Splendid… Harman is the first to treat this fascinating subject in an accessible, lively manner unshackled by academic jargon”
Paula Byrne, Sunday Telegraph
“A fascinating compendium of absolutely everything relating to Austen…extraordinary”
Independent on Sunday
“a book that no Austen addict will want to resist”
Mark Bostridge, Literary Review
