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For more than thirty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. Her unique chronology, containing some ten thousand entries, is now available in…

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1 author picked A Chronology of Jane Austen and Her Family as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Effectively, this is a meticulous stalker’s record of Jane Austen’s family, listing what everyone was doing (and where) for every single day of her life.

I know of nothing quite like this biographical resource (for any writer). Admittedly, the book is more like an Excel spreadsheet than a narrative—and something I’ve only gratefully consulted rather than read straight through from end to end. But for hardcore Janeites, this day-by-day listing of events in her life is indispensable.  

From Janine's list on Jane Austen 250th birthday.

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