17516 Poetry and of her own feelings

and of her own feelings she had buried

Oscar Wilde

Spine of jacket is lightly sun-faded

International Publishing Company

This copy from 1969 is the 3rd printing of the corrected second edition

17516 Poetry and of her own feelingsWilson first read Jane Austen in 1947, and earned a PhD on reading and teaching Austen fiction in 2021. In between she taught English and worked on oral history projects, including one with Holocuast survivors. In this reading memoir, she shares how interactively reading Austen during different times throughout her life brought her deeper understanding of her own experiences. More recent rereading of Austen has helped her find self acceptance, joy,