{"product_id":"jane-austen-and-shelley-in-the-garden-a-novel-with-pictures","title":"Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: A Novel with Pictures by Todd, Janet","description":"Text\/Link\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFran's conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her - but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long-standing English friend, and an American writer, leads to new possibilities. Adrift, the three women bond through a love of books and a quest for the idealist poet Shelley at two pivotal moments of his life: in Wales and Venice. His otherworldly longing and yearning for utopian communities lead the women to interrogate their own past as well as motherhood, feminism, the resurgence of childhood memory in old age, the tensions and attractions between generations. Despite the appeal of solitude, the women open themselves social to ways of living - outside partnership and family. Jane Austen, as always, has plenty of comments to offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is a (light) meditation on age, mortality, friendship, hope, and the excitement of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Todd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fentum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781909572270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2021 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Todd (\u003cem\u003eJane Austen's Sanditon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDon't You Know There's a War On?\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eRadiation Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAphra Behn: A Secret Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Man of Genius\u003c\/em\u003e) is a novelist, literary critic and the biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughters Mary Shelley and Fanny Wollstonecraft. She has written widely on Jane Austen's work and is the General Editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen\u003c\/em\u003e. A former president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, an Emerita Professor at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Born in Wales, she grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon\/Sri Lanka and has worked at universities in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US (Douglass College, Rutgers, Florida), Scotland (Glasgow, Aberdeen) and England (Cambridge, UEA). She lives in Cambridge and Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fentum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656864596121,"sku":"9781909572270","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/3367\/0297\/files\/img_4f7f4d5b-997f-4510-90be-840e22d5d59b.jpg?v=1724611772","url":"https:\/\/bookmarksretail.store\/products\/jane-austen-and-shelley-in-the-garden-a-novel-with-pictures","provider":"Bookmarks Retail","version":"1.0","type":"link"}