Just Jane (Ladies of History Series #2)
by Nancy Moser
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Author: Nancy MoserEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: 0764203568
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
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Book Review: This novel was a real surprise.
Summary: 5 Stars
With all the hoopla over Jane Austen in recent years, especially the "Becoming Jane" movie, which I had heard was a bit over-the-top, I was not sure whether I was going to enjoy this book.
What actually drew me to it was the fact that it was published by Bethany House, a Christian publisher. I had never read anything before that tried to look at Jane as a woman of faith---even though her father was a rector. I was curious to see how the author would handle that, and wondered if she would stretch the truth in her portrayal of Jane to either 1) make Jane seem more religious/spiritual/pious than she probably was, or 2) make the book more exciting and romantic. Thankfully, she did neither.
The plot of the book seemed to closely follow the events from Jane's life that we know of based on some of her personal writings which have been previously published. Yes, that did at times make Jane seem slightly aloof to the reader---I wanted to know what she REALLY thought---but I appreciated that the author did not presume to know for sure, and therefore let some things just be vague. Even in the spots that were clearly out of the author's imagination, she stuck with the "Jane" she'd been presenting all along. There really was no melodrama. For this reason, I wouldn't call the book a page-turner. It was something more to savor at a slow pace, to flip back several pages now and again to recall what had already happened and refresh my memory about who was who in Jane's world.
The real proof of the excellence of this book comes at the end. When the story ended and I read the note about how and when Jane had died, I had tears streaming down my face. After having gotten to know her "in her own words" (so to speak, since the book was written in first-person narrative), I was just struck with sadness to think that she is really gone. I mean, OF COURSE we all know that Jane Austen died. But "Just Jane" made her life seem so much more REAL than the little blurbs about her that we can always read in the fronts of her few published novels. It was like reading "The Diary of Anne Frank," quite honestly. Like Anne, Jane had become a friend; it's terrible when a friend dies.
For Jane Austen fans who'd like to learn about Jane's life and aren't expecting a bunch of predictable and exaggerated drama, this book is perfect.
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Christy Award-winning author transports readers inside this witty and moving account of the life and times of the literary world's most beloved writer, Jane Austen.Fiction Books
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