The Economist (US), October 18th, 1997
JANE AUSTEN. By Claire Tomalin. Viking; 384 pages; K20.
JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE. By David Nokes. Farrar Straus & Giroux; 578 pages; $35
JANE AUSTEN had a good friend called Anne Sharpe-a strong, self-reliant school teacher. To Anne she wrote, early in 1817: "If I live to be an old woman I must expect to wish I had died now, blessed in the tenderness of such a Family, & before I had survived either them or their affection." She wrote this letter, her last, just before leaving her home at Chawton and going with her sister, brother and nephew to Winchester to seek help from a doctor. She sensed t...
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