ARGONAUT BOOKS

Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure. Reviews 'Jane Austen's Bookshelf is brilliant stuff - a bold bit of canon jujitsu, sparked by the simplest of questions'Observer'In [Romney's] expert hands we rediscover not just the stories that Austen grew up reading but a forgotten generation denied their rightful place in literary history. Edgeworth, Radcliffe, Bu...Read More