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Author:

Hornby, Gill, author.

Title:

Miss Austen Gill Hornby.

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Publisher:

Flatiron Books,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

270 pages map 25 cm.

Subject:

Austen, Cassandra,--1773-1845--Fiction.
Austen, Jane,--1775-1817--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Letters--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Older women--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

"Published by arrangement with Century ... part of the Penguin Random House group of companies"--Copyright page. "A novel"--Jacket.

Summary:

"England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister's reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fianc©©, in search of a trove of Jane's letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister's legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra's vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane's brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane's life"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1250252210
9781250252210

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1089266505

Locations:

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)