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Condition: clean copy. Content: April 1817: Property developers are erecting sea side apartments in Sandition, for ladies and gentlemen who may prove winners or losers as lovers or money-makers. That is the situation in Jane Austen's unfinished novel. Forced by illness to set it aside she dies three months later. This book is about those three months. 224 pages, notes.

Condition: clean copy. Content:Drawing on letters unbailable to previous biographers, the author depicts Bronte's inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. The author serizes upon a moment in Bronte's adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: while working at a girls' school in Brussels. Bronte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: Using letters, diaries, essays, travelogues, sermons, treatises, journal articled and notices, and Austen's novels, the author paints a detailed picture of the people and concerns of Austin's work, but also broadens the canvas to include personal accounts of the issues of the day, from rural poverty to life in Nelson's navy. 288 pages,Select bibliography, sources, maps, Chronology of… Read more

Thomas More's UTOPIA form its first appearance in 1516, has been one of the germinal works in Western thought. This edition is based on the text prepared as Volume 4 in the Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St Thomas More and includes an Introduction by Father Surtz which summarizes the import of Utopia for the general reader. Notes… Read more

Sound clean hc in dj. Very slight shelf wear. No marks.

'Maggie Lane has created a marvellous guided tour of how women writers triumph in the most uncompromising circumstances.' -Literary Review. 222 Pages. References, Bibliography.