Jane Aiken Hodge

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Jane Aiken Hodge


Born
in The United States
December 04, 1917

Died
June 17, 2009

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Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master's degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University.

Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers' reader and a reviewer.

She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, PASSION AND PRINCIPLE. But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including POLONAISE, THE LOST GARDEN, and SAVANNAH PURCHASE, the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers.

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“No, sir.’ She withdrew her hand. ‘Quoting Shakespeare will get you nowhere.”
Jane Aiken Hodge, Escapade

“That’s the whole point of bread and circuses; they give employment to the vulgar.”
Jane Aiken Hodge, Escapade

“Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.”
Jane Aiken Hodge, Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen

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