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)

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

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