Jane Austen had a Life!

Jane Austen had a Life!

Jane Austen had a Life! is the first complete guide to her Juvenilia, the Novels, Tales, Letters, short plays and a poem Jane Austen wrote between the age of twelve and seventeen, and kept, in three small exercise books. It has a chapter on each of the thirty-one pieces, and a guide to their major themes.

Arcana Gallery Press has reissued this companion piece to Jane & Darcy, by V.S. Rutherford, a guide to works Jane Austen wrote during her teenage years, a number of them from the period she and D’Arcy Wentworth were together.

Like any teenager, Jane reveals her emotions, her likes and dislikes. She describes her adventures, her observations of London, her rambles in Scotland. She wrote about difficult parents and overbearing adults, about young women taking the initiative in love and life, about family secrets and the busybodies who gossip about them; about love, loss and regret.

Jane Austen had a Life! is a book for all lovers of Jane Austen, for students of her writing, their teachers and tutors. Discover the young Jane Austen, the characters she created to illustrate her world, her feelings and her aspirations for the future.

Published by Arcana Gallery Press,
Jane Austen had a Life! has 277 pages, endnotes and an index.
ISBN 978-0-646-96510-9
Email: info.vsrutherford@gmail.com