她的后期作品同样也是三部:《曼斯菲尔德庄园》、《爱玛》和《劝导》,都是作者迁居乔顿以后所作。前两部先后出版,只有1816年完成的《劝导》,因为作者对原来的结局不满意,要重写,没有出版过。她病逝以后,哥哥亨利·奥斯丁负责出版了《诺桑觉寺》和《劝导》,并且第一次用了简·奥斯丁这个真名。 A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends . . . 伦敦男人和伊拉克教师,本来没有共同之处,却成为最好的朋友。
May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee, on the other hand, is a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house.
They should have nothing in common.
But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad is the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears. And, between the grenades, the gossip, the jokes and the secrets, they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad . . .
Bee Rowlatt is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother of three and would-be do-gooder, she can find keeping her career going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty tough, even in leafy North London.
May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in Chaucer and sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that all-important hairdresser's appointment.
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