A Jane Austen Christmas
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Filled with the remarkable wit and insight of one of the world's most cherished authors, A Jane Austen Christmas gives readers insight into Austen's life through little-known stories about how she and her family celebrated the treasured holiday season. Carlo DeVito provides an intimate portrait of Austen's most cherished Christmas memories with her family: from the gift of her first writing desk, to her first love and heartbreak, to her brewing mead and beer in time for the holidays. Along the way readers will spend a holiday in the Austen house, celebrate Jane's birthday, meet the inspiration for more than a dozen characters, attend the Christmastide series of balls, and learn how to make family's favorite recipes and dedicate a novel to the Prince Regent. Remarkably fresh and supremely entertaining, A Jane Austen Christmas brings Austen's world to life as never before.
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More like 3.5 but...
First the good. There was a lot of interesting information and I'm glad to have this and to have read it, but...
This wasn't really about Christmas at this time. It was more about Jane Austen at certain Christmastimes. The actual Christmas stuff seemed forced a lot of the time. Also...
There were a lot of typos. You don't quote saying “X wrote”, it's “writes”. I'm pretty sure Henry III couldn't have visited an Elizabethan home...
Still, an interesting book.
