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Book SynopsisJane Austen (Author) Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing
Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called
First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime,
Sense and Sensibility (1811),
Pride and Prejudice (1813),
Mansfield Park (1814) and
Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817.
Northanger Abbey and
Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.
Alexander McCall Smith (Introducer) Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and most popular authors. His career has been a varied one: for many years he was a professor of Medical Law and worked in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Th
Trade ReviewAn incredibly funny, very upmarket love story with an enchanting heroine and the perfect romantic hero: a tartar with a heart of gold -- Jilly Cooper
Another question I've been regularly asked over the past year is what models I had in mind when writing
Curious Incident. Was it
To Kill a Mockingbird? Was it
Catcher in the Rye? In fact, the book most often in my mind was
Pride and Prejudice -- Mark Haddon
The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste * Virginia Woolf *
I am a great admirer of Jane Austen -- Alexander McCall Smith
The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist * Independent *
