Since 2009 Lucy has presented shows for Channel 4, History and has become a mainstay across the BBC covering everything from Alfred The Great, King Henry VIII and Britain’s fascination with murder. Somewhere in between she also finds the time to present TV series on a range of historical subjects. ( Literary Review)Ī sprightly new take on Austen's life.Dr Lucy Worsley is, by day Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and by night a writer of history books. There's much intriguing historical detail. ( New York Times)Īn interesting portrait of Georgian and Regency material culture. Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know. ( Saturday Express)Ī deep, prolifically researched dive into the houses, vacation homes, and schools where the author spent her life. Truly, this is a dazzling exercise in persuasion, written with sense and sensibility.

Rarely, if ever, will you encounter a historian so in command of their material. ( Red magazine)īrilliant and very moving, this book is a fascinating and original exploration of Jane Austen with lots of new material - Worsley brings Austen to life superbly, through her pages she is a flesh and blood woman, intelligent, powerful, contradictory, loving, loved. ( Amanda Foreman)Ī vivid portrait of Jane Austen. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity. Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life.

This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

A woman who, far from being a lonely spinster, in fact had at least five marriage prospects, but who in the end refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy. Jane famously lived a 'life without incident', but with new research and insights Lucy Worsley will reveal a passionate woman who fought for her freedom. This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison. Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodation, the houses both grand and small of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life, where she wrote her many of her famous novels. On the eve of the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death, step back into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived.

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley