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Claire Tomalin is the author of several prize-winning biographies--of Mary Wollstonecraft; Katherine Mansfield; Dickens's secret mistress, Nelly Ternan; and Dora Jordan, the actress who for twenty years was companion to the future George IV. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the New Statesman and The Sunday Times. Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 27, 1999
Price: $16.00
Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen--the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in... Read more >
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Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.95
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would... Read more >
