Jane Austen for Kids: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities | TheBookSeekers

Jane Austen for Kids: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities


For Kids Series

No. of pages 144

Published: 2019

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Jane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in English literature. Austen's genius was her cast of charactersso timeless and real that readers today recognize them in their own families and neighborhoods. Her book's universal themeslove and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibilitystill tug at heartstrings today in cultures spanning the globe. Austen wrote about daily life in England as she knew it, growing up a clergyman's daughter among the upper class of landowners, providing readers with a window into the soul of a lively, imaginative, and industrious woman in an age when most women were often obscured. Jane Austen for Kids includes a time line, resources for further study, places to visit, and 21 enriching activities.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called For Kids .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Chicago Review Press .

 

This book is in the following series:

For Kids Series

This book features the following character:

Jane Austen
Jane Austen lived in Georgian England, and as a female author her works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition. Her writing is a critique of the British landed gentry at the end of the eighteenth century, and often a comment on the pursuit of a good match" in matters of marriage.