![]() ![]() ![]() What I love about her biographies is that she explores the intellectual life, the imagination, of her subjects and how their inner lives interact with their work. She writes compellingly and deeply about her subjects - and that’s not easy to do all at once: Like a dedicated journalist, she deploys massive amounts of research and discipline but she’s also a gifted storyteller, approaching her subjects with a consideration and curiosity that lend psychological depth to her biographies. The 88-year-old Tomalin is an English national treasure who has chronicled the lives of the great British authors and thinkers. She’s taken us with her - via her vivid, erudite writing - through the Hampshire pathways and Bath streets and the many houses, grand and otherwise - that comprise the tour of Austen’s life. ![]() As the author of an absolutely gorgeous biography of Jane Austen, writer Claire Tomalin is someone many of us already feel close to. ![]()
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