Jane Austen for Kids

Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities

Nancy I. Sanders

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781613738559
• Year: 2019

Jane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in English literature. Austen's genius was her cast of characters—so timeless and real that readers today recognize them in their own families and neighborhoods. Her book's universal themes—love and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility—still 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Time Line
• 1. Pride: The Austen Ancestors
• 2. Prejudice: A Clergyman’s Daughter
• 3. Sense: A Literary Education
• 4. Sensibility: Youthful Writings
• 5. Love and Friendship: Growing Up
• 6. Persuasion: Literary Masterpieces
• Resources
• Bibliography
• Notes