Rebecca Smith (2) (1966–)
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Bildnachweis: University of Southampton
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Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House (2010) — Einführung; Judge — 194 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1966
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- United Kingdom
- Geburtsort
- London, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- BA, History, University of Southampton 1988
- Kurzbiographie
- Ms Rebecca Smith is a novelist and Principal Teaching Fellow in English at the University of Southampton.
I am the author of three novels - The Bluebird Café, Happy Birthday and All That and A Bit of Earth (all Bloomsbury) and two works of nonfiction - The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas (Ivy Press, 2014). These have been published around the world. I wrote the text for the picture book, Where’s Jane? (Ivy Kids, 2018). My fourth novel for adults, The Ash Museum, will be published by Legend Press in May 2021. I am a member of The Society of Authors and The National Association of Writers in Education. I supervise MA and PhD creative writing students working on a variety of topics in fiction for adults and young people.
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Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas: Answers to Your Most Burning Questions About Life, Love, Happiness (and What to Wear) from the Great Novelist Herself is a fun "Dear Abby" column but filled with advice based on Jane Austen's novels and her life. The book is divided up into several sections (e.g., fashion, home, love, etc.) and within each section, related questions are asked. The author, Rebecca Smith is the great-great-great-great-great niece of Jane Austen and truly appears to have done her research on her aunt's books and her life. Each answer is filled with direct quotations from Austen's books and her letters to Cassandra (Jane's sister). I enjoyed seeing the connections between modern life problems and Austen's heroines. My one complaint is that I feel that the questions are quite lighthearted and the answers are a bit too serious (they are fun, mind you, but there are quotations and references!). This format may not have been the best for presenting Rebecca Smith's knowledge of her aunt. In any event, I did enjoy this book and I feel that I will return to it every time I finish an Austen novel.… (mehr)