Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first comprehensive critical biography of Jane Austen for half a century. Based in part on newly-discovered documentary sources, Professor Halperin's book challenges the received view of the life and personality of the first great woman writer in English - a view established by her family at her death and perpetuated for a century and a half.  Halperin reveals Jane Austen's feeling of social exclusion, her sense of cultural exile, her complicated and various relationships with men. He challenges long-held myths about her feelings for her family, her education, her emotions and her death - uncovering an unknown private life of Jane Austen.  This is the present generation's definitive create critical biography. John Heffernan is Centenial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
 
Harvester Press Ltd.; 1984. Paperback.399 pp. Very minor crease to spine. John Halperin Centennial Professor of English, Vanderbilt University. Preowned. ISBN: 0710810911.