Jane Austen's Fashion Bible
$31.67
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible is a joyous celebration of the visual world created by the beloved Regency author.
A stunning gift edition, this book features extracts from Jane Austen’s novels and juvenilia, and focuses on the iconic styles and social settings of the era.
Each excerpt is accompanied by a beautiful corresponding colour fashion plate and entertaining description from Regency magazine La Belle Assemblée. Published from 1806 until 1832, La Belle Assemblé…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035049127 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035049120 |
| Author: | Ros Ballaster |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 492g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 142mm x 223mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Oxford University literature professor Ballaster takes readers on a delightful tour of Regency-era fashion and its place in Jane Austen’s novels and letters… Full-color images from the magazine and a glossary of fashion terms round out the scrupulously detailed volume. Janeites will treasure this. * Publishers Weekly *
This gold-beribboned, elegantly designed paper-over-board edition of Jane Austen’s Fashion Bible is perfect for fashion buffs, Austen fans, and even The Gilded Age enthusiasts … Devotees of Austen’s characters will cherish the chance to see what they might have worn. * Shelf Awareness *
Pairing gorgeous color drawings and accompanying descriptions from Regency magazine La Belle Assemblée and iconic passages from Jane Austen’s published novels, letters and manuscript fiction, this is the Regency fashion book period obsessives will devour. Oxford professor and Jane Austen expert Ros Ballaster’s commentary makes it all sing. * People Magazine *
Ros Ballaster
Jane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.
Ros Ballaster is a writer and professor at Oxford University who specializes in eighteenth-century literature and is an expert on Jane Austen.
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