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RR 2007/21 A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family Deirdre Le Faye Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2006 xv + 776 pp. ISBN 0 521 81064 7 £85; $150
Keywords English literature, History
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120710719554
Jane Austen is one of a select band of writers whose output has generated a mountain of literary criticism. As well as this, her work has also given rise to sequels of varying quality and numerous film adaptations. Other scholars have produced in-depth biographies and histories of her family life and private life, or written books on the impact of Jane Austen on modern society.
Although every avenue of Austen-related criticism seems to have been explored, Deirdre Le Faye has come up with something different, which may prove to be of great value to Austen scholars in the future. It is, essentially, her card catalogue, which contains 30 years of research, produced in book format. The Chronology complements Le Faye's previous work, Jane Austen: A Family Record, which gives a detailed narrative of the ancestry of the...