A Portrait of Jane Austen

By David Cecil

Format: Paperback

Published by: Penguin (1980)

ISBN: 0140054111

Drawing on Jane Austen’s letters, novels and other people’s memories of her, Lord David Cecil sets out ‘to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art’. The portrait that emerges is of a clear-sighted, observant, strong-minded woman whose witty and ironic representation of her own society has delighted readers for centuries.