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She has previously won the james tait black memorial prize for biography, the whitbread first novel award, the hawthornden prize, the ncr book award for nonfiction, and the whitbread biography award. Jane austen, her life and letters by richard arthur austen. To quote the 18thcentury authors austen leigh greatnephews. Theyre both solid, readable accounts, sticking close to austen s life and milieu. Tomalin eschews gossip and speculation in favor of a sober. While most austen biographers have accepted the assertion of janes brother henry that my dear sisters life was not a life of events, tomalin shows that, on. Tomalin is one of the finest biographers writing today, with a real knack for explaining the societal context in which her subject lived. Persuasion northanger abbey mansfield park emma lady susan love and freindship sic and other early works pride and prejudice sense and sensibility. The life and death of mary wollstonecraft claire tomalin.
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