This absorbing new study reveals her to be much more worldly than many have given her credit for, and that she was never short of suitors and male friends. Looking at those in her family and her social circle - both formal acquaintances and romantic attachments - we see what Jane thought of them and how they affected her life. Audrey Hawkridge also analyses the male characters in Austen's novels - now considered rather more rounded than they once were - and how the real men she knew and socialized with shed their own light on the men in her works.
- ISBN10 0720611644
- ISBN13 9780720611649
- Publish Date 28 June 2002 (first published 24 July 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 September 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Owen Publishers
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English