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From the Desk of Jane Austen

100 Postcards

Author Potter Gift, Jane Austen
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$20.00 US
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed | Potter Style
4.36"W x 6.54"H x 2.57"D   | 18 oz | 16 per carton
On sale Feb 05, 2013 | 100 Pages | 9780770436698
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For Jane Austen fans who treasure the art of correspondence, this elegant keepsake box filled with 100 postcards featuring the author’s ubiquitous wit is the perfect gift.
 
• 25 of Austen’s most beloved witticisms, culled from her extensive collection of personal correspondence. Each saying is reproduced four times for a total of 100 postcards.
• Mail these postcards to loved ones, frame them to display as art, or pin them to an inspiration board to infuse your life with Austen’s wit and joy.
Potter Gift, a lifestyle imprint of Penguin Random House, specializes in design, fashion, humor, wellness, stationery, and other paper and gift products. View titles by Potter Gift
Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At 21, she began a novel called “The First Impressions,” an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801, on her father’s retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear in print was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously, she had many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby. Her last work, Sandition, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen’s identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry, who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818. View titles by Jane Austen

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For Jane Austen fans who treasure the art of correspondence, this elegant keepsake box filled with 100 postcards featuring the author’s ubiquitous wit is the perfect gift.
 
• 25 of Austen’s most beloved witticisms, culled from her extensive collection of personal correspondence. Each saying is reproduced four times for a total of 100 postcards.
• Mail these postcards to loved ones, frame them to display as art, or pin them to an inspiration board to infuse your life with Austen’s wit and joy.

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Potter Gift, a lifestyle imprint of Penguin Random House, specializes in design, fashion, humor, wellness, stationery, and other paper and gift products. View titles by Potter Gift
Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16, 1775, she was educated mainly at home. At an early age she began writing sketches and satires of popular novels for her family’s entertainment. As a clergyman’s daughter from a well-connected family, she had ample opportunity to study the habits of the middle class, the gentry, and the aristocracy. At 21, she began a novel called “The First Impressions,” an early version of Pride and Prejudice. In 1801, on her father’s retirement, the family moved to the fashionable resort of Bath. Two years later she sold the first version of Northanger Abby to a London publisher, but the first of her novels to appear in print was Sense and Sensibility, published at her own expense in 1811. It was followed by Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). After her father died in 1805, the family first moved to Southampton then to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Despite this relative retirement, Jane Austen was still in touch with a wider world, mainly through her brothers; one had become a very rich country gentleman, another a London banker, and two were naval officers. Though her many novels were published anonymously, she had many early and devoted readers, among them the Prince Regent and Sir Walter Scott. In 1816, in declining health, Austen wrote Persuasion and revised Northanger Abby. Her last work, Sandition, was left unfinished at her death on July 18, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Austen’s identity as an author was announced to the world posthumously by her brother Henry, who supervised the publication of Northanger Abby and Persuasion in 1818. View titles by Jane Austen

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