Jane’s famous faint discussed in new book
The Scotsman profiles Hermione Lee, author of the upcoming Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing. This book is a collection of essays about biographies and their relation to history and fiction.
The essays’ subjects include Shelley, Yeats, Einstein, and many others, including Austen:
She also discusses the many versions of Jane Austen’s faint on being told the family was to leave Steventon for Bath - “one of the most dramatic moments in her life, and one of the places where all Austen’s biographers have to decide what to do with the handed-down family versions”.
Prof. Lee is a well-known author of many works, including biographies of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather.
