FORMAT: Canvas Bag
SIZE
Width: 380mm (15")
Height: 380mm (15")
Depth: 90mm (3½")
COLOUR: Blue
MORE FEATURES
Cotton canvas
Interior zippered pocket
Branded Paperblanks tag
Anyone with an ambition to write will have heard this advice: Write about the things you know.
For Jane Austen (1775–1817) this meant confining her narratives to a worldview based around what young women of her time were exposed to: the household sitting room. That said, the goings-on in a Georgian-era home provided ample opportunities for inquisitive writers like Austen to study human character and emotions. And so, despite their seemingly limited source of inspiration, Jane Austen’s novels (like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma) continue to be placed among readers’ all-time favourite book lists because of their superb insights into the dynamics of society and human interaction. Persuasion, the novel featured on this cover, is among her lesser-known works but it benefits from the writer’s more mature outlook as it was composed toward the end of her life.
Born in Hampshire, England, Jane was the second youngest of eight children. According to the custom of the day, her formal education consisted largely of such subjects as needlework, dancing, and music. However, she had access to two large libraries, those of her rector father and a family friend, and her family was always supportive of her intention to succeed as a professional writer. Her novels found readers within her lifetime and she even counted among her admirers George IV, the Prince Regent and eventual King of England!