Jane Austen Part 1: “Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked.”

On December 23, 1815, Jane Austen was at her country home in Chawton celebrating the release of her novel Emma when she received a call from the future …

Jane Austen didn’t sell many books while she was alive. But after her death more than 30 million copies have been sold. During this conversation Jane will tell us about Cousin Eliza and the character that she may have inspired, and the story of how her husband lost his head during the French revolution.

She’ll also tell us what made it possible for her to write, and the purpose, as she saw it, for writing at all.

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