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Bennett, Veronica. Cassandra's Sister: Growing Up Jane Austen. Candlewick Press (MA), 2007.
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Veronica Bennett

Cassandra's Sister: Growing Up Jane Austen

  • Candlewick Press (MA)
  • 2007
  • Gebunden
  • 240 Seiten
  • ISBN 9780763634643

"Blends romance and tart courtship commentary successfully enough to create new Austen fans, gratify existing ones, and send both back to the stacks for more." - Booklist (starred review) Young Jane - or Jenny, as she is called - is a girl with a head full of questions. Surrounded by her busy parents and brothers, Jenny finds a place for her thoughts in the companionship of her older sister, Cassandra. Theirs is a country life full of balls and visits, at which conversation inevitably centers on one topic: marriage. But the arrival of their worldly-wise cousin disrupts Jenny's world, bringing answers to some of her questions and providing a gem of an idea. Veronica Bennett invites us into a society where propriety and marriage rule hand in hand, a milieu

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in which Jenny finds inspiration to write the masterpieces Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - a world where a clever young girl will one day become the beloved Jane Austen.

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