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Attention all people who love Jane Austen, I have a good book for you.

Jane Austen: The Secret Radical by Helena Kelly

January 29, 2020 by narfna 7 Comments

I was just sort of expecting a fun book where the author points out passages in Austen’s work that adds credibility to the idea that Jane Austen was a radical thinker for her time. And that does occur here. (Radical, by the way, has a bit of a different usage here, in that it mostly means someone who is open to new ideas, and to rejecting the old if that is the right thing to do. That word has a negative association now that isn’t […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Helena Kelly, Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Secret Radical, Literary Criticism, narfna, non fiction

narfna's CBR12 Review No:15 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Helena Kelly, Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Secret Radical, Literary Criticism, narfna, non fiction ·
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37: Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her before.

June 10, 2018 by bonnie Leave a Comment

It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a Jane Austen stan. For example: I just bought an Austen themed game that was advertised as a Kickstarter on Facebook (it arrived last week, and it is basically Jane Austen meets Settlers of Catan. SUCH A HOOT). Books about Jane Austen are almost always a matter of interest to me. Last year, I saw that Helena Kelly’s Jane Austen, the Secret Radical was published and making an enormous splash. I decided in a fit of the-school-year’s-almost-over […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: bonnie, Helena Kelly, Jane Austen

bonnie's CBR10 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: bonnie, Helena Kelly, Jane Austen ·
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