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The Letters of Jane Austen: Performed by FIONA SHAW in a dramatised setting - Mr Punch Audiobooks

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Release Date: 2025-07-17

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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The Letters of Jane Austen, performed by FIONA SHAW in a dramatised setting.

“Frequently indiscreet and occasionally acerbic or heartless, Jane Austen’s letters are always engaging. Fiona Shaw gives a sensitive reading” Daily Telegraph

“Fiona Shaw as Jane Austen babbles like a little brook of a petit-point life in Hampshire and Bath” The Independent

Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of forty-two. It is to her elder sister Cassandra that most of her surviving letters are written, and through them we discover the intimate world of the English gentry. They are at times both candid and wickedly indiscreet, detailing the joys and sorrows of her large family, providing us with an insight into the life of one of England’s great novelists.

The Letters of Jane Austen: Performed by FIONA SHAW in a dramatised setting - Mr Punch Audiobooks

By Mr Punch Audiobooks

Release Date: 2025-07-17

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Play Full Download
The Letters of Jane Austen, performed by FIONA SHAW in a dramatised setting.

“Frequently indiscreet and occasionally acerbic or heartless, Jane Austen’s letters are always engaging. Fiona Shaw gives a sensitive reading” Daily Telegraph

“Fiona Shaw as Jane Austen babbles like a little brook of a petit-point life in Hampshire and Bath” The Independent

Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of forty-two. It is to her elder sister Cassandra that most of her surviving letters are written, and through them we discover the intimate world of the English gentry. They are at times both candid and wickedly indiscreet, detailing the joys and sorrows of her large family, providing us with an insight into the life of one of England’s great novelists.

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