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Cassandra & Jane, [a Jane Austen novel], Jill Pitkeathley

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Cassandra & Jane, [a Jane Austen novel], Jill Pitkeathley

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Cassandra & Jane

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

299755559

Responsibility statement

Jill Pitkeathley

Sub title

[a Jane Austen novel]

Summary

They were beloved sisters and the best of friends. But Jane and Cassandra Austen suffered the same fate as many of the women of their era. Forced to spend their lives dependent on relatives, both financially and emotionally, the sisters spent their time together trading secrets, challenging each other's opinions, and rehearsing in myriad other ways the domestic dramas that Jane would later bring to fruition in her popular novels. For each sister suffered through painful romantic disappointments -- tasting passion, knowing great love, and then losing it -- while the other stood witness. Upon Jane's death, Cassandra deliberately destroyed her personal letters, thereby closing the door to the private life of the renowned novelist ... until now

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