15617 Accessories Essential reading for Austen admirers

Essential reading for Austen admirers

Excellent introduction

Rich with fascinating period illustrations and useful diagrams

Brock illustrations with tissue paper

Previous owner signed inside front cover

15617 Accessories Essential reading for Austen admirersShorr provides humanizing portraits of Austen, Shelley, and Joan of Arc at key moments in their lives when they are faced with life altering decisions. Should Austen, at a low place in her life, accept a marriage proposal that would not bring her love, but would bring her and her family financial and social ease? Should teen Shelley defy society and elope with her poet? Should Joan of Arc stick to her beliefs in the face of a fiery death? W. W.