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      By Lycett, Andrew
       2007., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: SC Bio D754ly    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Born in Scotland to an artistic Irish family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became the archetypal Englishman and advocate of the British empire. With an alcoholic father and dominating mother, he rejected his family's Roman Catholicism. Seeking salvation in the scientific certainties of medicine, he became a doctor. But he proved inadequate: he needed scope for his imagination in writing, and for his repressed religious feelings in spiritualism." "The result was a fascinating personality and strong individualist, someone who, despite the trappings of convention, was prepared to take on the establishment in innumerable struggles for justice. Never content with Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was also a prolific writer of horror stories, histories and poetry. He was a sportsman, politician, clubman, polemicist, and much more besides." "With access to vast amounts of previously hidden archival material, Andrew Lycett shows the agonies, struggles and humanity of this great author as never before."--BOOK JACKET.
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      By Myer, Valerie Grosvenor
       c2011, [2012]., Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: At the heart of Jane Austen's story lies a mystery: how a woman of "genteel poverty," the seventh child of a country clergyman, an unmarried spinster for whom life was often a struggle against the indignities of financial dependency, could have produced works of such magnificent warmth and wisdom. Valerie Grosvenor Myer's flawless research proves Austen's books grew from the preoccupations of her social set - respectability, financial security, and most of all, marriage. "It is a truth universally acknowledged," begins Pride and Prejudice, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." In that one line are revealed the principal forces at work in Austen's novels - and in the world from which they were drawn. Using letters, family memories, and of course the novels themselves, Myer provides a detailed and revealing look at Jane Austen.
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      -- Life in small things
      By Byrne, Paula
       c2013., Harper Call No: 823.7 B99r   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: This new biography explores the forces that shaped the interior life of one of the most beloved novelists in the English language. Each chapter begins by evoking an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen's life and work. The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern that the conventional picture. The book looks at the biographical influences on her work, as well as her boundless wit and energy--Jacket.