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Austen, Jane
Cecil, David. A Portrait of Jane Austen. Constable, 1978. Elegantly written and elegantly illustrated attempt “to reconstruct and depict her living personality and to explore its relation to her art” (author's foreword).
Grey, J. David, ed. The Jane Austen Handbook: with a Dictionary of Jane Austen's Life and Works. London: Athlone, 1986. Scholarly and substantial guide.
Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Understanding view evokes Austen's daily world and influences.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. Major biography, with illustrations and bibliography.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. Jane Austen: a Biography. London: Gollancz, Classic 1938 biography reissued with a new postscript by the author.
Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen's England. London: Hale, 1986. The writer in her social context, for the general reader.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds. Yale University Press, 1991. 
Nicolson, Nigel. The World of Jane Austen. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991. Attractive blend of scholarly and popular.
Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. London: Macmillan, 1986. 
Watt, Ian, ed. Jane Austen: a Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall International, 1963. Essays by 20th-century critics.

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