Jane Austen at Home

A Biography

By: Lucy Worsley

Narrated by: Ruth Redman

Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses - both grand and small - of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a "life without incident".

Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows listeners a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but - in the end - a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy.

Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new audiobook about one of the world's favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.

©2017 Lucy Worsley (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton

Critic reviews

" Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity." (Amanda Foreman, best-selling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire)

Always a Favorite!

I have read this book in both hard copy and audio version several times as a devoted Janeite. I love Lucy Worsley’s biography of Jane Austen best of all. The narration of Ruth Redman is perfect.

Brings Jane to Life

I’ve read several books about Jane Austen but this one did the best job of describing her life in context to her time. Highly recommend it.

Great

Narration very good. I always enjoy Lucy Worsley books. My favorite historian. Highly recommend if you like Jane Austen.

Brilliant in every way.

I absolute adored this insightful, unique, richly researched, detailed biography of Jane Austen. The narrator is wonderful, as well, drawing me in and keeping me hooked. I did go buy the hardback, as well, to make it easy to mark up, but highly recommended.

Lucy Worsley is actually a real good author

I love Jane Austin but I actually expected this read to be cookie cutter at best. I was pleasantly surprised. Àfter the book was done I felt like I knew Jane much better. I highly recommend this.

A splendid, moving narrative

Lucy Worsley has produced a wonderful exploration of Jane Austen’s life and world. A must read for Janites or anyone with an interest in this critical era.

wonderful book

I enjoyed this book so much. The details about Jane and her family helped me to understand her life more. I highly recommend this book .

Worthwhile

A reasonable balanced narrative of the Austen family and their relationships. Provides a historical and personal context of JA novels.

Very enjoyable and interesting book.

This was an interesting book, not the usual dry biography. Ms. Worsley is particularly good at setting out what facts are known, what facts are not known, and what the possibilities could be given the historical context. I enjoyed the book very much.

Excellent listen (or read)

If you love Jane Austen and history; then you’ll love this book. Such interesting and intriguing read. The story of her birth family, how they lived and interacted is something I could not have imagined.

Women had no rights; especially if you were a spinster. She choose this path and how she maneuvered trough this world; with what “help” her brothers were willing to give.
The relationship between her sister whom she was closest to until her death.
You will enjoy this, sit back relax and read!