Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large & sociable family. Brothers & sisters nieces & nephews friends & acquaintances were always coming & going & eating & drinking. Fortunately one of Janes dearest friends Martha Lloyd lived with the family for many years & recorded in her Household Book" over 100 recipes enjoyed by the Austens. This family fare tested & modernized for todays cooks is reproduced here together with some of the more sophisticated dishes which Jane & her characters would have enjoyed at balls picnics & supper parties. The introduction discusses Janes own interest in food as shown both in the novels & in her letters & the importance of mealtimes & entertaining in the social life of her period (1775-1817) with the complete contents of Martha Lloyds " Household Book" & the history of the manuscript now in Jane Austens House at Chawton Hampshire. Delightful line drawings prints & watercolours from contemporary sources illustrate the book." ...

Jane wants to meet a hero worthy of her extraordinary imagination: a gentleman who is dashing & daring & handsome & brave; who can dance like a viscount & duel like a king. Jane & Jenny are whiling away the season in Bath & there are plenty of dances rumours & scandals to entertain them. But a good reputation once lost is gone forever; & Jane is in danger of becoming the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons ...

Jane Austens witty perceptive & romantic novels have delighted readers for two hundred years. With clear sight common sense & good judgment she observed the hits & near-misses of her heroes & heroines in love. Relationships certainly havent got any easier since then & Lauren Henderson believes that we might just have lost touch with the fundamental rules. JANE AUSTENS GUIDE TO ROMANCE rights that wrong & brings Austens Regency wisdom into the twenty-first century. This is the only relationship guide based on stories that really have stood the test of time. Its a fun insightful book full of concrete advice & wise strategies that illustrate how honesty self-awareness & forthrightness do win the right man in the end & weed out the losers playboys & toxic flirts. Henderson deftly summarizes all the love stories in the books & introduces all the characters so that newcomers & devotees alike can delight in this fun fresh & audacious how-to guide. ...

In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade Jane Austen used the romantic endeavours of her well-plotted characters as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics & class-consciousness rarely expressed in her day. The novels included in this beautiful leatherbound collection Sense & Sensibility" " Pride & Prejudice" " Mansfield Park" " Emma" " Northanger Abbey" " Persuasion" & " Lady Susan" represent all of Austen's mature work as a novelist & provide the reader with an introduction to the world she & her memorable characters inhabited. " Jane Austen: Seven Novels" is part of " Barnes & Noble"'s series of quality leatherbound volumes. Each title in the series presents a classic work in an attractively designed edition bound in genuine bonded leather. These books make elegant additions to any home library." ...

When Jane Blonde becomes a sky-diving sensation shes on cloud nine! But her flying skills are put to the test when a flock of freaky creatures takes to the air. Can Blonde uncover the dangerous force behind her new enemy before shes blasted out of the skies? ...

Janey Brown just completed her first mission as Jane Blonde Sensational Spylet. Now the kitty-knapping of her spy-cat Trouble launches her into another incredible investigation! A group of crazed scientists believe they have discovered the secret to a cat's nine lives but they need Trouble for their experiments. All the clues lead Janey down a manhole defeating the enemy is going to be a wet & stinky business! But with chewing gum that lets her breathe underwater a tracking device called a SPIpod & a high-speed mini-hoverboard as well her natural code-cracking expertise Jane Blonde is ready for action.. . ...

Janey Brown thought she was an only child. Now ' Joanie' has turned up claiming to be Janey's secret twin! But when Jane Blonde is posted to Australia to investigate a suspicious sheep farm it becomes clear that Joanie isn't quite what she seems. Has Janey exposed an undercover cloning operation? Soon Janey's dodging more than boomerangs: there are multispies on the loose including Jane Blonde's own evil twin! ...

Janey is delighted when she is granted a dazzling golden spysuit. But things get deadly serious when her investigations lead her to a shocking discovery... Her arch enemy has developed a terrible giant ' Lazy Beam' which he is directing at Earth from a secret space station! No one has the strength to resist its zapping power
- but the Golden Spy will have to do just that to stop her arch enemy taking over the world.
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Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn & Lady of the Bedchamber to Katherine Howard whom she followed to the scaffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to & participant in the greatest events of Henry's reign. She arrived at court as a teenager when Katherine of Aragon was queen. Even before Henry's marriage to Anne her own marriage to George Boleyn brought her into the closest royal circles
- & there she remained through the unfolding spectacle & tragedy of Henry's succession of marriages. She survived the trauma of Anne & George's executions & despite briefly being banned from Court managed to regain her place there to attend on Jane Seymour & Anne of Cleves. Her supposed part in both Anne Boleyn's & Katherine Howard's downfall has led to her being reviled through centuries. In this fascinating biography Julia Fox repudiates the idea of the infamous Lady Rochford & Jane emerges as a rather modern woman forced by brutal circumstance to fend for herself in a politically lethal world.
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A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions & dark secrets Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" is edited with an introduction & notes by Stevie Davis in " Penguin Classics". Charlotte Bronte tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt enduring loneliness & cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence & spirit
- which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester & live with the consequences or follow her convictions
- even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power & intrigue " Jane Eyre" dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality & freedom. In her introduction Stevie Davis discusses the novel's language & politics its treatment of women's lives & its literary influences. This edition also

Includes:: a chronology further reading an appendix & notes. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) eldest of the Bronte sisters was born in Thornton West Yorkshire. " Jane Eyre" was first published in 1847 under the pen-name Currer Bell & was followed by " Shirley" (1848) & " Vilette" (1853). In 1854 Charlotte Bronte married her father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died during her pregnancy on March 31 1855. The Professor was posthumously published in 1857. If you liked " Jane Eyre" you might enjoy Jean Rhys' " Wide Sargasso Sea" also available in " Penguin Classics". " At the end we are steeped through & through with the genius the vehemence the indignation of Charlotte Bronte". (Virginia Woolf). " Charlotte Bronte's heroine towers over those around her morally intellectually & aesthetically...she takes a scalpel to the skin of the everyday". (China Mieville). " The masterwork of a great genius". (William Makepeace Thackeray)."



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