This review is bilingual. You will find first the review in English and after that, you will find the The Lady of Romance! – ¡La Dama del Romance!
This review is bilingual. You will find first the review in English and after that, you will find the review in Spanish.
Esta crítica es bilingüe. Usted encontrará primero la crítica en Inglés y luego de esta, usted encontrará la crítica en Español.
REVIEW IN ENGLISH
Since I bought this book on Spanish, I will do the review on bilingual. This biography is part of a line on Spanish of famous women in history, published by a publisher house from Spain.
The book cover all life of Jane Austen and while she died young and she is one of the most famous female authors of all time, it isn’t easy to make a biography of her, since oddly enough, many of her documents and letter were destroyed by some members of her own family, I don’t know if by carelessness, ignorance or jealousy, but the fact is that happened. Luckily, there were still some members of her family that they kept some of her documents and letters and even they published their own personal recollections of Jane Austen’s life.
Jane Austen only published six novels (also a short story) and even two of those novels were published after she passed away, but those six novels are truly pillars of the universal romance genre and inspirations for generations and generations of writers since then.
One of the key elements of Jane Austen’s work was her honesty showing how was the life of women in late 18th century and early 19th century on England, keeping a true testimony of their struggles of surviving a male dominated society where they even weren’t able to inherit properties or money without having to marry a man, therefore marriage was a survival necessity in that society and Jane Austen was able to portrait different scenarios, but where beyond convenience marriages, she always prioritize true love marriages.
Ironically, she never marry, but it wasn’t by choice per se, but destiny just hadn’t that kind of path for her, but instead becoming one of the most influential and relevant romance writers of all time.
CRITICA EN ESPAÑOL
Ya que compré este libro en español, haré la reseña en bilingüe. Esta biografía forma parte de una línea en español de mujeres ilustres de la historia, publicada por una editorial de España.
El libro cubre toda la vida de Jane Austen y si bien murió joven y es una de las autoras más famosas de todos los tiempos, no es fácil hacer una biografía de ella, ya que curiosamente, muchos de sus documentos y cartas fueron destruidas por algunos miembros de su propia familia, no sé si por descuido, ignorancia o celos, pero el caso es que así sucedió. Por suerte, todavía había algunos miembros de su familia que conservaron algunos de sus documentos y cartas e incluso publicaron sus propios recuerdos personales de la vida de Jane Austen.
Jane Austen solo publicó seis novelas (también un cuento corto) e incluso dos de esas novelas se publicaron después de su fallecimiento, pero esas seis novelas son verdaderamente pilares del género romántico universal e inspiraciones para generaciones y generaciones de escritores desde entonces.
Uno de los elementos clave de la obra de Jane Austen fue su honestidad al mostrar cómo era la vida de las mujeres de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX en Inglaterra, manteniendo un fiel testimonio de sus luchas por sobrevivir en una sociedad dominada por los hombres en la que ni siquiera podían heredar propiedades o dinero sin tener que casarse con un hombre, por lo que el matrimonio era una necesidad de supervivencia en esa sociedad y Jane Austen supo retratar diferentes escenarios, pero donde más allá de los matrimonios por conveniencia, siempre priorizaba los matrimonios de amor verdadero.
Irónicamente, ella nunca se casó, pero no fue por elección en sí, sino que el destino no tenía tipo de camino para ella, sino convertirse en una de las escritoras románticas más influyentes y relevantes de todos los tiempos.
I read the Jane Austen novels in separate books but I choose this editiLove is in the air, dear fellow readers!
JANE AUSTEN, SYNONYM OF ROMANCE
I read the Jane Austen novels in separate books but I choose this edition to have a focused item to show in my “favorites” shelf, since I didn’t want to leave some of her core six finished novels out of the selection. I could choose Sense and Sensibility as my option to show in the “favorites” shelf, but I still wasn’t comfortable leaving out the other five books, since I believe that each one of her core six completed works is a relevant and significant part of her soul and each one is as worthy to be read as the rest.
Jane Austen’s work is key in the genre of romance, but also in the field of Victorian novels since she lived there and she was brave to show without any regard how was life at England in that particular age of history, how men behave and how women was treated by society.
Therefore, I felt that it was relevant to put them in my “favorites” shelf that I didn’t want to expand more of ten books or series, since obviously I have loved many more books, but I think that it was useful to reduce to ten my options there, selecting like the best examples of each of my favorite book genres.
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