February Book of the Month – The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paul Byrne
Title: The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things Author: Paula Byrne Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: 1/29/2013 How Acquired: Through the Publisher What it’s about: I came to Jane Austen relatively late in life it feels. I didn’t read Pride and Prejudice until my senior year of high school. As a moody teenager, I reveled in the gothic novels of Emily and Charlotte Bronte. It was actually the film version of Pride and Prejudice starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson that got me interested in reading the book. I found the movie so delicious and fun that I had to read the book. Since then I’ve read Northanger Abbey, Emma and Persuasion and I’ve seen almost every single adaptation of all the books. I’ve even read several biographies but I’ve never really felt as if I knew who Jane was. She certainly wasn’t the character played by Anne Hathaway in BECOMING ...