Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for her subjects to bear on one of our greatest, and most elusive, novelists. Widely acclaimed as the finest of Austen biographies, the book offers us 'a brave, sharp-tongued character who fairly bounces off the page' (Val Hennesy). And along the way it gives us an 'authoratative, graceful,succinct account of a wide swathe of English society which brilliantly illuminates' the novelist (Victoria Glendinning).
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin is a renowned British biographer known for her meticulous research and compelling storytelling. Her most famous work, "The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft," brought new insight into the life of the feminist pioneer. Tomalin's contributions to literature lie in her ability to breathe life into historical figures.
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