In a small village in England Jane Austen observes human nature at its best-and worst. Vivid characters pour from her pen. Jane dreams of publishing her stories. Will anyone ever read her novels?
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In a small village in England Jane Austen observes human nature at its best-and worst. Vivid characters pour from her pen. Jane dreams of publishing her stories. Will anyone ever read her novels?
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Very well done. Very sensitive, well researched, and gave me a better feeling of her world. I liked this a lot.
piafinn
Feb 5, 2009
Wife or Author?
I loved this fictional account of the life of Jane Austen, told as if by Jane, herself. The author does a great job with the language and manners of the times, as well as in bringing out the wit and sarcasm of Austen.
It shows the various stages of her life and loves. Although she never married, she was surely in love, and was proposed to at least twice. She chose not to marry, as she was a romantic, and did not wish to marry someone she did not love. (What a concept!)
Most of the books' scenes are taken from biographies of her life, as well as any letters that may have remained. Her sister, Cassandra, destroyed the most personal letters after Jane's death at age 41.
I especially liked how the author described Austen's feelings about writing, her characters, and ultimately her books. She describes her books as her children, and when she first received them, she counted their fingers and toes.
Once, her chest filled with her completed manuscripts and current writing projects was inadvertantly placed on a coach heading to the coast and then to the West Indies. She was frantic. They represented years of work. They were her children. Her mother didn't understand why she was so upset. She was able to retrieve them and was sure never to be without them nearby.
She didn't seek fame, This was evident by the fact that originally her books did not even bear her name, but were published anonymously. Also, she refused to have her brother negotiate a better contract for Pride and Prejudice, as his wife had just died. She saw that publication was vindication that her work had merit. One man remarked that the writing was so clever that he couldn't believe it had been written by a woman. She was thrilled with the independence that came with earning an income, especially as her family was in a difficult financial situation at the time. She loved praise and was bothered by criticism, but more than anything she just wanted to write, to be free to be who she was, to use her gifts, and to create her own Mr. Darcy, since she was unable to find him for herself.
Undoubtedly, if she had married, she would have had a very different life and would probably not been free to pursue her writing career and the world would not be reading her works two hundred years later.
By letting the mating game go on without her, she was free to write and be, Just Jane.
Lindsay, TheBookVlogger
Aug 30, 2008
Just Jane was just boring
Written more like a series of diary entries Just Jane is 70% dull, at best- Not to knock Nancy Moser?s skills as a writer, but in fact I must commend her. What a feat to take on! Jane Austen?s life written through her own eyes. How can one expect to take on such a mountain and finish with perfection? It?s just not possible. First off, I had just watched the wonderful feature film called ?Becoming Jane?. Big mistake. I went into the book expecting a heart pounding romance and got mild flirtations. Any time a romance showed potential it was fiddled over and distinguished in a few pages. It was a situation where an entire lifetime was shoved into one book. Any tales of narrative were lost in a jumble of too many names of no one ever important. The story did have moments of shine when ever Jane made a leap in her writing career, but these moments were far and few between. If anything the story was less about being a novelist or romance and more about visiting irritating family members. Most of the time the narrative would describe something going on and follow it up with paragraphs upon paragraph of idle thought. A few times I recall thinking ?what? Who cares! Lets get on with it already!?. Just Jane does end on a good note leaving you with a happy feeling and then you turn the page it?s filled with additional history about Jane. Unfortunately the first thing you read is the date of her death and how she died. Then you realize that she died one year after the ending of the book! Completely depressing at that point. On the plus side, I learned a lot about Jane Austen.
wisdomhunter
Jun 24, 2008
slow read
When I read Just Jane, I thought that it was a slow read. My outlook at Jane from this novel was that she was pretty self-centered as she related everything back to herself. Since I have not studied Jane's history, she could very well have been. She was pretty boring, living more with her characters in her books than real life. I'm sure that at that time in history it was pretty tedious to hand-write a book. I do have to admit that although most of our book club said that the book was a little boring, as a group we did get a few chuckles with the court scene and the bathing at the sea.
