Akron Public Library

The young Jane Austen is not particularly interested in getting married, although she does find the mysterious Mr. Lefroy an intriguing possibility--but first she has to deal with the accusation that her cousin Eliza is a French spy, and solve a murder.

"In the English countryside of the nineteenth century, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë-coping with an elderly father and a brother dedicated to drinking-find themselves confronting their family's stormy economic forturnes. And they do it their own way: overcoming difficulties and first failures with pride and courage; transforming their creative talents into a source of sustenance; and finally living lives of freedom."--

A biography of the nineteenth-century English writer who at the age of nineteen wrote the classic horror novel "Frankenstein."