title: Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons For The Modern Woman
author:  Lori Smith 
description: <DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt">&#8220;Jane Austen has been my life coach since I first discovered Pride and Prejudice thirty years ago. After reading Lori Smith&#8217;s lovely The Jane Austen Guide to Life, <BR>I now understand why. Part Austen biography, how-to-guide, and all heart, this engaging book will sensibly explain the mysteries of relationships, life, <BR>and love that Jane Austen so excelled in on the page and in her own life.&#8221; <BR>&#8212;Laurel Ann Nattress, editor, <I>Jane Austen Made Me Do It</I> and Austenprose.com</P><P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt">&#8220;Highly engaging. . . . Lori consults Jane Austen&#8217;s novels and letters and allows the author&#8217;s sparkling wit, straight moral compass, and wise words to guide us in the 21st century. At times I could almost hear Jane speaking directly to me.&#8221; <BR>&#8212;Vic Sanborn, <I>Jane Austen&#8217;s World</I> blog</P><P class=MsoNormal>&#160;Praise for Lori Smith's <I>A Walk with Jane Austen</I></DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>&#8220;A lovely, intimate read.&#8221;<BR>&#8211;<B>Karen Joy Fowler</B>, best-selling author of <I>The Jane Austen Book Club</I></DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>&#8220;Lyrical and questioning...perfectly pitched.&#8221;<BR>&#8211;<B>Emma Campbell Webster</B>, actress, author of <I>Lost in Austen, </I>and founder of lostinaustenblogspot.com<BR><BR>&#8220;With wit, charm, and rare honesty&#8211;of which I have to believe Jane Austen would have thoroughly approved&#8211;Lori Smith weaves her personal life experiences throughout her journey into the life that was Jane&#8217;s. Infused with faith, romance, loss, and a search for self, <I>A Walk with Jane Austen</I> makes for that rare book that keeps popping into one&#8217;s thoughts and beckoning one back.&#8221;<BR>&#8211;<B>Tamara Leigh</B>, author of <I>Perfecting Kate </I>and <I>Splitting Harriet</I><BR><BR></DIV></DIV>
zlib_text: VOTES FOR WOMEN!
  
  Praise for Jenni Murray’s  
   _A History of Britain in 21 Women_
  
  ‘Murray tells their remarkable stories with her own extraordinary wit, passion
  and piercing insight. She is the perfect guide.’
  
  Helen Castor
  
  ‘I can’t think of any more seductive way of learning about the past than
  meeting its principals as if they were friends in a room. That’s the gift that
  Jenni Murray gives us; a rare gift because these principals are women. If
  someone in every country were to write a book like this, scholars might
  finally admit there are two things – history and the past – and they are not
  the same.’
  
  Gloria Steinem
  
  ‘I was fascinated by this well-researched, informative and entertaining book.
  I knew the names of many of the women among its pages, but not their stories
  and it was wonderful to read about them via Jenni Murray’s warm and well-
  written prose. Entertaining, enjoyable and scholarly.’
  
  Elizabeth Chadwick, bestselling author of the _Eleanor of Aquitaine_ trilogy
  
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