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Book of the Week: Jane's Fame

Book of the Week: Claire Harman - Jane's Fame: Episode 2

Jane's Fame

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Claire Harman - Jane's Fame

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Jane's last years were a period of concentrated writing and business with publishers.

The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of concentrated writing and business with publishers.

Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings to Hollywood movies. 

The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her fame was nonetheless beginning to spread.

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Book of the Week: Claire Harman - Jane's Fame

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Alice Krige reads from Clare Harman's exploration of Jane Austen's rise to pre-eminence

Alice Krige reads from Clare Harman's exploration of Jane Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings to Hollywood movies.

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