Camp Austen
Book description
The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother's world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organising the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane…
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The first Jane Austen novel I read was Sense and Sensibility, and the combination of humor, manners, and romance hooked me. But I’ve never been tempted to participate in a costume ball—at least not till reading this book. Scheinman not only offers a detailed biography of Austen herself, he also explores the world of her superfans, the ones trying to recreate that era of manners and ball gowns.
As he states in the opening, Austen writes about different forms of inheritance, and in this book, Scheinman has given readers a look at his own inheritance as the son…
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