"In Becoming Jane Austen, Jon Spence shows how events and people in Austen's own early life affected her so deeply that she continually reshaped them into the plots and characters of her fiction."
"Chronicles the life of novelist Jane Austen, focusing on the factors which most influenced her life and work, including her relationship with Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy, which inspired her great love stories."@en
"Chronicles the life of novelist Jane Austen, focusing on the factors which most influenced her life and work, including her relationship with Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy, which inspired her great love stories."
""Becoming Jane Austen shows how Jane Austen's own personal experiences resonated throughout her work, from her juvenilia to Sanditon. Two people, above all, affected her life and caught her imagination. The first was her flirtatious and exotic cousin, Eliza de Feullide, married to a French count who was later guillotined. The second was the young Irish lawyer, Tom Lefroy, with whom Jane fell in love and whom she hoped to marry. Jon Spence traces the deep emotional impact that her encounters with Eliza and Tom had on her, and shows how she worked this out in her life and in her work, including in her major novels."--Jacket."