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Miss Austen

Hornby, Gill (author.).

Summary: ""A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." -Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister's reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fiancé, in search of a trove of Jane's letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister's legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra's vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane's brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane's life. With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 1250252202
  • ISBN: 9781250252203
  • Physical Description: x, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2020.
Subject: Austen, Cassandra 1773-1845 Fiction
Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Fiction
Sisters Fiction
Authors Fiction
Novelists Fiction
Family secrets Fiction
England Social life and customs Fiction
Great Britain History Fiction
Genre: Novels.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F HOR (Text) 37268003081791 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Bellwood-Antis Public Library F Hor (Text) 310BEL00088291 Adult Fiction Available -
Coudersport Public Library FIC HOR (Text) 30183000963700 Adult Fiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC HORNBY, GILL (Text) 36446002011636 Adult Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library HIST FIC HORNBY GILL (Text) 35740635619521 Historical Fiction Available -
Hamburg Public Library HOR (Text) 33249023619707 Fiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library FIC (Text)
Bookplate: Presented by Paula and Tom Ney in memory of Ralph and Peggy Jaeger
30003009006972 Adult Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Hornby (Text) 33223008550518 Fiction Available -
Tamaqua Public Library HOR (Text) 30TPL001864709 Adult Fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library HORNBY, GILL (Text) 34455006700898 Adult Fiction Available -

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