books by Deirdre Le Faye

books by Deirdre Le Faye

books:

Deirdre Le Faye

Northanger Abbey (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen)

Jane Austen

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Northanger Abbey: Janeites rejoice in this light and lively tour de force
Northanger Abbey is a gem. Jane Austen (1775-1817)has written a charmiing little novel about a charming little lady named Catherine Moreland. Catherine is 15 as the novel begins in Wiltshire. She and the hilariously stupid Mrs. Allen go on a six week trip to nearby ...

Jane Austen's Letters

Jane Austen

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Great, easy read
This little book was great. It contained all the available letters without any later interpretation. The only problem is that the book is cheaply made. Pages immediatly fell out, and the presentation is crappy.Also, if you know nothing of Jane or he family its hard to ...

Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide

Deirdre Le Faye

British Library, 2002

An exceptionally well-written life story
Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide by Austen biographer Deirdre Le Faye is the informative and engaging story of Eliza de Feuillide, a grand woman who is best known to history as the strong-willed first cousin of Jane Austin. ...

The Jane Austen Cookbook

Maggie Black

McClelland & Stewart, 2002

Nice little introduction to Jane Austen's food and culture
This is a lovely and shortish introduction to cooking and culture of eating and entertaining for the late Georgian period when Austen was alive. I loved the fact that this was about cooking and eating rather than some of the less universally approachable subjects ...

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels

Deirdre Le Faye

Frances Lincoln, 2006

My favorite Austen introduction
As a longtime student of Jane, this book absolutely riveted me. you learn so much about her life, her times, her works, and her influences, and the style of this beautiful book is enchanting. LeFaye skillfully weaves together pieces of biography, history, and plot to ...

So You Think You Know Jane Austen?: A Literary Quizbook (Oxford World's Classics)

John Sutherland, Deirdre Le Faye

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Intellectual Fun
If you love Jane Austen's work as much as I do, then this is a nice way to spend your time testing your perception of her novels and even seeing things you may not have noticed before. I do not recommend it to those students who like to read notes instead of the actual ...

Jane Austen: A Family Record

Deirdre Le Faye

Cambridge University Press, 2003

The Compleat Jane
A literate, entertaining, complete, and unsentimentalized account of Jane Austen and her family, nuclear and extended. The Austens and the Leighs (Jane's mother's family) were both numerous and well-connected; their relationships are detailed in an unequalled series ...

Jane Austen
Deirdre Le/ Le Faye, Deirdre Faye

Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2006

A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family: 1700-2000
Deirdre Le Faye

Cambridge University Press, 2006

For more than thirty years, Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organizing every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. She has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some ten ...

Jane Austen (British Library Writers' Lives)
Deirdre Le Faye

Topeka Bindery, 2000

Jane Austen is now one of the most popular novelists in the English language, and yet on the face of it one of the most unlikely candidates for such a title. Austen died at the age of 41 and left behind only six completed novels. Yet her works have never been out of print, and in this century, within the last three decades in particular, never a ...