A review by zoer03
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

5.0

This is the most warm and a fascinating insight into the mystery that is Who is Jane Austen? Yes she’s a famous author from the 18th C but we had never really gotten to know the real Jane the real woman who for nearly over a century has helped guide women and at times humorously mocked us through our mistakes in love and also given us hope in either finding love or being comforted that love can be found in the simplest of pleasures. We have also only been given a one sided view of her through her family’s eyes and I might just say it’s mainly a white wash on all Jane is through her novels, so for me this book is an eye opener and a joy to read though there a few things I disagree with when it comes to her views on the marriages of the heroines, I agree there is a sense of a wicked sense of humour and that the marriage scenes are short but I disagree with the idea that there are hardly any love scenes there are oh there are it’s just that its all subtly done and it’s a building love that builds and builds throughout all her novels in different ways... yes.. but it’s all there. I just don’t think she would have put in the lovey doves wishy washy stuff that most authors in her time were doing it’s a poke at them that she doesn’t have that. That’s only just one bit we’re I disagree with Lucy Worsley, she is still my favourite author in historical biography. And this book is a gem.