Jane Austen at Home: A Biography -

Lucy Worsley

St. Martin's Press

2017

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-10: 125013160X

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but - in the end – a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world’s favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.

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5 (Perfeito)

O livro mostra, em um primeiro momento, como era a vida doméstica dos Austens e, posteriormente, o leitor se depara com as dificuldades em que a Jane, sua irmã, Cassandra, e a Sra. Austen tiveram que lidar após o falecimento do pai, apesar de ter um irmão abastado.

Achei muito interessante a forma como a publicação dos livros era feita na época e, apesar de mostrar que a Jane conseguiu o grande feito de publicar diversas obras em vida, não conseguiu, infelizmente, o rendimento suficiente para conseguir manter o mesmo padrão de vida de quando seu pai era vivo.

Para aqueles ainda interessados, vale a pena assistir ao documentário "Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors" da Lucy Worsley.