Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith

Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith

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Jane Austen is more of a celebrity and media queen now. As a forensic observer of the social scene, with a mordant wit, and a sly way of puncturing pretension and seeing past the social facade, there is no doubt that if she had been with us today, she would have had her own column in an upmarket glossy a stylish, smart cookie agony aunt.

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Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas by Rebecca Smith

Jane Austen is more of a celebrity and media queen now. As a forensic observer of the social scene, with a mordant wit, and a sly way of puncturing pretension and seeing past the social facade, there is no doubt that if she had been with us today, she would have had her own column in an upmarket glossy a stylish, smart cookie agony aunt.

Rebecca Smith is a Teaching Fellow in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southampton. She is the author of three novels: The Bluebird Café (2001), Happy Birthday and All That (2003) and A Bit of Earth (2006), as well as two nonfiction books—Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas (Ivy Press, 2012) and The Jane Austen Writers’ Club (2016). Her first novel for children was Shadow Eyes, and Where’s Jane? is her first picture book. Rebecca is Jane Austen’s great-great-great-great-great-niece.

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ISBN 13 9781782401643
ISBN 10 1782401644
Title Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas
Author Rebecca Smith
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published 2014-07-07
Number of pages 224
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