Jane and Her Gentlemen: Jane Austen and the Men in Her Life and Novels

by Audrey Hawkridge (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.29

  This absorbing new study reveals her to be much more worldly than many have given her credit for, and that she was never short of suitors and male friends. Looking at those in her family and her social circle - both formal acquaintances and romantic attachments - we see what Jane thought of them and how they affected her life. Audrey Hawkridge also analyses the male characters in Austen's novels - now considered rather more rounded than they once were - and how the real men she knew and socialized with shed their own light on the men in her works.