INDIE EXCLUSIVE Jane Austen's Bookshelf - PRE-ORDER FOR 20/2/25

INDIE EXCLUSIVE Jane Austen's Bookshelf - PRE-ORDER FOR 20/2/25

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Pre-order your indie exclusive copy of Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney for £25.00. This edition has an indie exclusive yellow sprayed edge. 

Publication date: 20 February 2025

**Offer available until midnight on 19 February 2025**

NOTE: Pre-Orders will only be posted/available to collect following the publication date above. 

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It all started with a book that made me curious. When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors.

Inspired by the connection between the two writers, she returned to Austen's books with a new lens, picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired. Austen read William Shakespeare, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson, all authors Rebecca had read. But Austen also read Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester Piozzi, and Maria Edgeworth, all authors Romney hadn't.

These female writers all sat proudly on Austen's bookshelf, but have disappeared from ours. Romney became fascinated with these writers and wanted to answer three important questions: What were the stories behind the lives of these women? Why have they disappeared from our bookshelves? Who wrote them out of history? She had a mission, an obligation: she needed to collect Jane Austen's bookshelf.

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by Rebecca Romney (Author)
Format:Hardback 464 pages
Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd
Imprint:Bonnier Books Ltd
ISBN:9781785124105
Published:20 Feb 2025



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