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JANE AUSTEN: A Life, by Claire Tomalin; Knopf ($27.50).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19980114
Author:Swindell, Larry

One reason there are so many biographies of Jane Austen is that analysts still havn't figured her out. Innumerable life studies have yielded not one Jane Austen but many: She is a Rorschach test, an ink blot susceptible to various biographical interpretations.

So here's Englishwoman Claire Tomalin with a portrait of Austen surely more trustworthy than most. One is disposed to want to trust Tomalin because of her recent and excellent track record. She delivered a riveting account of the love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, projected from the woman's ...

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