Jane Austen: A Life

A softcover in fine condition. Pages and plates are clean and unmarked throughout, and the boards are clean and unmarked. First Vintage Books edition. Jane Austen: A Life is Claire Tomalin's acclaimed biography of the novelist, drawing on what survives of the historical record. Tomalin, one of Britain's leading literary biographers, dismantles the long-standing image of Austen as a sheltered, homebound figure. Regarded as the finest of the Austen biographies.