The Jane Austen Remedy: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Book Can Change a Life Wilson Ruth
The Jane Austen Remedy: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Book Can Change a Life Wilson Ruth As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing…
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The Jane Austen Remedy: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That a Book Can Change a Life Wilson Ruth
As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. She resolved to re-read Austen's six novels; to reflect on her life in relation to what she discovered in each of them. And as she grappled with feelings of unfathomable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a small sunshine-yellow cottage in New South Wales, Australia where she lived alone for the following ten years.Ruth had fostered a lifelong love of reading, and from the moment she first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s she had looked to Jane Austen's heroines as her models for the sort of woman she wanted to become.
And as Ruth read between the lines of both the novels and her own life, she began to reclaim her voice.A beautiful, life-affirming memoir of love, self-acceptance and the