A review by laurenb_reads
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford

informative relaxing fast-paced

4.25

Wonderful, brief biography of Jane Austen built from the little we know of her, with openly acknowledged  speculation here and there to fill in the gaps. After Stafford takes us through Austen’s life, in remarking on family events and where she lived, she takes us briefly through Austen’s novels, adding the context of when and how she wrote them from what we know about her life. It has some of the most beautiful sentences I have ever seen in a biographer, chapter after chapter. Beautiful and brief.