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HarperCollins
April 2010
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Featuring: Eliza de Feuillide
276 pages
ISBN: 0061875988
EAN: 9780061875984
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Historical | Jane Austen
In Dearest Cousin Jane, an enchanting new novel that
draws on historical fact, Jill Pitkeathley paints a luminous
portrait of the true-life cousin of a literary legend--from
her flirtatious younger years to her profound influence on
one of the world's most beloved authors. Free-spirited
and seductive--outrageous, precocious, and a well-known
flirt,Countess Eliza de Feuillide has an unquenchable thirst
for life and a glamorous air that captivates everyone around
her. Rumored to have been born of a mad love affair between
her mother and the great Warren Hastings of the East India
Company, Eliza sees the world as her playground--filled with
grand galas, theater, and romance,and she will let nothing
hold her down. Even tragedy cannot dim her enthusiasm.
Losing her only child at an early age and widowed when her
husband,the dashing French count Jean de Feuillide,is
claimed by Madame la Guillotine during the dark days of the
Reign of Terror, Eliza is determined to remain indomitable,
unpredictable, and unfettered. And it is this passionate
spirit that she brings to a simple English country parsonage
to influence the life, the work, and the world of her
unsuspecting cousin…a quiet and unassuming young writer
named Jane Austen.
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