Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden
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- ISBN 9781909572270
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Fentum Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and Shelley, she finds one.
Jane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend.
Fran's conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her - but Fran is ready for change. An encounter with a long-standing friend, and a new one, a writer, lead to something new. The three women unite in their love of books and in a quest for the idealist poet Shelley at two pivotal moments: in Wales and Venice. His yearning for utopian communities and visionary power lead them to interrogate their past relationships, literature, motherhood, death, feminism, the resurgence of childhood memory in old age, the tensions between generations. Despite the appeal of solitude, they open themselves to different ways of living outside partnership and family. Jane Austen has plenty of comments to offer.
This "coming of old age" novel is a (light) meditation on age, literature, friendship, hope, and the joy of new opportunities.
Janet Todd (Don't You Know There's a War On?. Jane Austen's Sanditon, Radiation Diaries, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, A Man of Genius, Mary Wollstonecraft), a founding feminist, is a former president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Born in Wales, she grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon/Sri Lanka and worked in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cambridge and Norwich. She lives in Cambridge and Venice.
