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Brave Jane Austen :

Pliscou, Lisa

Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel / by Lisa Pliscou ; illustrated by Jen Corace. - First edition. - pages cm

Born in the late 1700s, Jane Austen was a smart, creative girl in a house full of boys, all of whom could aspire to accomplish many things as adults while girls were raised primarily to become good wives. Jane didn’t have much opportunity to go to school but she read everything she could, including all the books in her father’s study. And before long, she began to write her own stories, filled with funny, clever, and inventive characters.Today, Austen’s novels (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and

Ages 7-10

9781627796439 (hardcover)

2017021039

PR4036 / .P55 2018

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