Simplicity
Marilyn Butler: What Jane Austen Read, 5 March 1998
Jane Austen: A Life
by David Nokes.
Fourth Estate, 578 pp., £20, September 1997,1 85702 419 2 Show More
by David Nokes.
Fourth Estate, 578 pp., £20, September 1997,
“... Women Writing about Money (1995) gets more thoroughly into the topic than a biographer can, and David Nokes provides even more insights than Tomalin into (say) Austen and legacy-hunting. In fact Tomalin’s considerable strengths are surely of another kind – to do with her modern, matter-of-fact tone of voice and her narrowed focus on Jane Austen as the ... ”