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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
by Rebecca Romney
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf was like a time traveling peak into literature, English culture, and society highlighting the eras surrounding Jane Austen’s own. Learning about the authors whose books she read that influenced her writing, and norms of the time, such reasons for publishing anonymously and how perceptions of writers changed in the decades and centuries after their lives, was fascinating.
Rebecca Romney is a gifted writer. She wove the life and literary history of nine 18th and 19th century female writers together with her own story of being a rare books collector. The elements of her life that she shared bridged the time periods together in the understanding of what we are surrounded by impacts us. Additionally and importantly, and she writes in a very entertaining way.
This book quite literally had me thinking beyond Jane Austen while simultaneously going back to revisit my favorites of hers. My TBR list is now a bit longer with both more Jane Austen titles and several of those she surely read.
Simon Element provided with a copy of this book; the opinions shared are my unbiased review.