Becoming Jane Austen
by Jon Spence
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Author: Jon SpenceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-03
ISBN: 1847250467
Number of pages: 294
Publisher: Continuum
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Book Review: An interesting interpretation
Summary: 4 Stars
Spence's biography of Jane Austen differs from the other biography I have read of Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin. Whereas Tomalin's interpretation speculates, it seems always grounded in fact, whereas Spence seems to want to take us to an interpretation of Jane based more on speculation and no more glaring example of this is his interpretation of Jane's affair (if you could call it that) with Tom LeFroy.
Nevertheless, Spence's book is very readable and provides food for thought for Austen fans interested in Jane's life and what personal experiences she may have had which inspired her novels. Like Perfidy and Perfection by Kate Allan which is inspired by Jane's life yet not wholly based on it, I think Spence's biography must be taken more as fiction that fact.
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