Jane Austen and Lord Byron By Christine Kenyon Jones Material:Hard Cover She can barely afford the

She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where honking horns and shouting football fans keep them awake all night

a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life

As Sobel did so memorably in her portrait of Galileo through the prism of his daughter

president of the International Transactional Analysis Association

'I couldn't put this book down

Jane Austen and Lord Byron By Christine Kenyon Jones Material:Hard Cover She can barely afford theJane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense of humour often brought them within touching distance, and sets them side by side in the world of the Regency and Romantic period. Using some little known sources and new research, it