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Paula Byrne: The Real Jane Austen
Austen Bicentenary Series 4
Hay Festival 2013,
The biographer re-examines Austen’s family context and finds a far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern woman than the conventional picture of ‘dear Aunt Jane’ would allow.