| ISBN |
9781408866054 (paperback) |
| Name |
Smith, Rebecca, 1966- author. |
| Title |
The Jane Austen Writers' Club : inspiration and advice from the world's best-loved novelist / Rebecca Smith ; illustrations by Sarah J Coleman. |
| Published |
London : Bloomsbury, 2017. |
| ©2016 |
| Description |
xii, 336 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
First published: 2016. |
| Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index. |
| Summary |
Pretty much anything anyone needs to know about writing can be learned from Jane Austen. While creative writing manuals tend to use examples from twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers, The Jane Austen Writers' Club is the first to look at the methods and devices used by the world's most beloved novelist. Austen was a creator of immortal characters and a pioneer in her use of language and point of view; her advice continues to be relevant two centuries after her death. Here Rebecca Smith examines the major aspects of writing fiction--plotting, characterisation, openings and endings, dialogue, settings, and writing methods--sharing the advice Austen gave in letters to her aspiring novelist nieces and nephew, and providing many and varied exercises for writers to try, using examples from Austen's work. |
| Subjects |
Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Technique |
| Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Criticism and interpretation |
| Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Influence |
| Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817 -- Quotations. |
| Romance fiction, English -- History and criticism |
| Fiction -- Technique |
| Authorship |
| Creative writing |
| Other Names |
Coleman, Sarah (Sarah Jane) illustrator. |
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