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Jane Austen :  a life  
by Claire Tomalin 
 - 1st American ed. 
 - New York   Knopf   Distributed by Random House  1997. 
 - xiv, 341 p.   ill., map ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> List of Illustrations -- Map Showing Steventon and the Austens' Hampshire Neighbours -- 1775 -- Meritocrats -- Boys -- School -- The French Connection -- Bad Behaviour -- Weddings and Funerals -- Neighbour -- Dancing -- The Doll and the Poker -- A Letter -- Defence Systems -- Friends in East Kent -- Travels with My Mother -- Three Books -- Twenty-five -- Manydown -- Brotherly Love -- A Death in the Family -- At Chawton -- Inside Mansfield Park -- The Sorceress -- College Street -- Postscript -- A Note on Jane Austen's Last Illness -- "An African Story" from Fanny Austen's Pocket-book, 1809, with a Note on Attitudes to Slavery -- Short Bibliography -- Family Tree. 
<br/><br/> Life of Jane Austen, the"real" woman, and her tangential relationship with society life of Georgian England. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679446281 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>9780679446286 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97036887 //r98 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Austen, Jane 1775-1817 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women novelists, English--Biography--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.7 Tom   14