Recs if you like Jane Austen: A Life...

Like actors on actors... but with writers... who probably never met each other. Anyway! Here's some biographical works on novelists, poets, journalists, etc.

Non-fiction and fiction books about Jane Austen and the time she lived in...(excluding retellings of her novels)

Biographies, lit crit, essays, and more about Jane Austen and her novels.

an eclectic collection of books related to austen's finished novels: from other classics to retellings to academic perspectives

themes i prioritized: women in the 18th & 19th century, marriage and economic considerations, coming of age