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Jane austen at home by lucy worsley7/6/2023 Unlike fiction, I can’t just keep reading, desperate to get to the end. The thing about biographies is that I really need to take my time. I don’t understand how I can navigate the most convoluted plot with ease, but a biography has me frowning and flipping back a few pages at a time. I was reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. As a general rule, I am really not a fan of biographies – I find myself getting confused about dates and names and importance of people. In fact, the first weekend I had the book, I took myself off to the Lake District for Beatrix Potter’s house, exhibitions, and walking. This would come back to bit me, as I wasn’t much in the mood for reading when I first took it out. Lucy Worsley’s biography, Jane Austen At Home seemed like it would be accessible (and it had a cute cover). But despite adoring Jane’s novels, I never knew much about Jane. I would probably still rank them as Persuasion, Emma, S&S, P&P, with Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park ranking far below. As recently as last year, Emma was read, and adored. During my teenage year, Sense and Sensibility and steady Elinor were touchstones, then once I was a little older and in sixth form, Persuasion became my favourite.
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