The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste.Virginia Woolf, 1925It wasn't really me that everyone went crazy about—it was the character [Fitzwilliam Darcy], who'd been around for a couple of centuries.Colin Firth, 1997Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.Mark Twain, 1898For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature. Anna Quindlen, 1995
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Jennifer Adams is the author of more than forty books. Her bestselling BabyLit board books (published by Gibbs Smith) introduce small children to the world of classic literature and have sold 1.5 million copies. She is the author of another series of board books, My Little Cities. Jennifer’s picture books for children, Edgar Gets Ready for Bed, Edgar and the Tattle-Tale Heart and Edgar and the Tree House of Usher are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” She also has two new picture books forthcoming from HarperCollins. Her titles also include books for adults, including Y is for Yorick, a slightly irreverent look at Shakespeare, and Remarkably Jane, notable quotations on Jane Austen. Jennifer graduated from the University of Washington. She has 20 years’ experience as a book editor, including at Gibbs Smith and Quirk Books. She currently works as a consulting editor for Sounds True, developing their children’s line. Jennifer works some evenings at her local independent bookstore, The King’s English, to feed her book habit. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Bill Dunford, who is also a writer. (bio from author's website)
