Jane's Fame How Jane Austen Conquered the World [Paperback]

Jane's Fametells the fascinating story of Jane Austen's renown, from the years of rejection the author faced during her lifetime to the global recognition and adoration she now enjoys. Almost two hundred years after her death, Austen remains a hot topic, constantly open to revival and reinterpretation and known to millions of people through film and television adaptations as much as through her books. InJane's Fame,Claire Harman gives us the complete biographyof both the author and her lasting cultural influencemaking this essential reading for anyone interested in Austen's life, works, and remarkably potent fame.

An informed and elegant chronicle of the rise of Divine Jane.' NPR's Fresh Air

Harman presents the story of Austen's self-fashioning and later popularity in a convincing, enjoyable way. She describes Austen's reputation from her own lifetime to the current era of Jane Austen, Inc., synthesizing a good deal of scholarship into a series of tidy chapters offering an accessible guide to the evolution of her subject's renown. The New York Times Book Review

Harman's Austen is neither sweet nor retiring, but a fire poker--a metaphor evoked by her bearing and manner, according to a contemporary visiting her household. Think tall, strong, and formidable,' not small and sweet. Elizabeth Toohey, The Christian Science Monitor

There is much to divert and please in Claire Harman's well-blended biography and cultural commentary. . . . Harman, an award-winning biographer, turns her sharp scholarly eye, acutely sensible prose and considerable wit on the life of the divine Jane' in this gem of a book, tracing Austen's early years and literary pursuits through to the present-day cult of Austenmania.... This biography-history fills in many blanks, brimming with entertaining anecdotes and quotes, robust scholarship and ironic humor. Alison Hood, BookPage

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