Lisa's Reviews > Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

DNF'd around 75% and hope to complete later. This is as much a memoir of Rebecca Romney as it is insight into the female authors who influenced Jane Austen. I was very intrigued by the behind-the-scenes look at the rare book trade, but not so interested in her feminist presuppositions or Mormon hurts projected onto Hannah More (who I respect for her connections to William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade). I am very interested in reading the works of Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Maria Edgeworth in the future.