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The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England
Literary Criticism > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Quirk Books
- Hardcover
- 9781594745058
- 6.97 X 4.77 X 0.98 inches
- 0.8 pounds
- Literary Criticism > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
- How to behave at your first ball
- How to ride sidesaddle
- How to decline an unwanted marriage proposal
- How to improve your estate
- How to throw a dinner party
--and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen's time, The Jane Austen Handbook is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.
Author Bio
Margaret Sullivan is the media columnist for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, she was the New York Times public editor, and previously the chief editor of the Buffalo News, her hometown paper, where she started as a summer intern.
She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She was a member of the Pulitzer Prize board from 2011 to 2012, and was twice elected as a director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where she led the First Amendment committee. While living in Manhattan, Sullivan taught in the graduate schools of journalism at Columbia University and the City University of New York.
Source: Washington Post
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