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Title	:	Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
Author	:	Fay Weldon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	November 9th 1999 by Basic Books (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Books About Books

Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

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“Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will – that is all, really, education is about, should be about.”

Wow, just wow! Love this little book by Fay Weldon. It is a collection of short essays about Jane Austen, about Writing, about being a Writer written in the form of letters to a fictional niece, very much like Jane Austen herself had written to her niece Fanny Austen-Knight 200 years ago. It is also a very personal, I would say, almost intimate tribute to the wonderful Jane Austen.

I loved Fay W's metaphor about the great "City of Invention", where authors are presented as builders, creating houses in the different districts of genres (and where, yes, there are literary McDonald's, selling books with empty calories) and then how she goes on, unwrapping this metaphor about Literature/the Writing Process in general and then always returns to Jane Austen in particular. Recommended to all Jane Austen addicts and all readers interested in history of Literature in general.


"If it's approval you want, don't be a writer,"

“Sometimes you’ll find quite a shoddy building so well placed and painted that it quite takes the visitor in, and the critics as well – and all cluster round, crying, ‘Lo, a masterpiece!’ and award it prizes. But the passage of time, the peeling of paint, the very lack of concerned visitors, reveals it in the end for what it is: a house of no interest or significance.”

“The good builders, the really good builders, carry a vision out of the real world and transpose it into the City of Invention, and refresh and enlighten the visitor, so that on his, or her, return to reality, that reality is changed, however minutely. A book that has no base in an initial reality, written out of reason and not conviction, is a house built of – what shall we say? – bricks and no mortar? Walk into it, brush against a door frame, and the whole edifice falls down about your ears. Like the first little pig’s house of straw, when the big bad wolf huffed and puffed.”

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Original Title:	Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
ISBN:	0786706880 (ISBN13: 9780786706884)
Edition Language:	English

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One of my favorite books about writers and writing. In the form of letters from an aunt, who is published literary novelist, to her niece who is in college and such that Jane Austen has nothing to say to her. Of course, Weldon explains exactly how much Jane Austen has to say. I have always loved the extended metaphor of novelist as builders in the city of literature, with different neighborhoods, and the English language side of town presided over by the great Castle Shakespeare.

Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen has been on my to-read list for years. I borrowed a copy from OpenLibrary, and have rather mixed feelings about it. Whilst I very much enjoyed the first letter in this epistolary novella, and felt both engaged and immersed within it, the rest of the book felt inconsistent. Many of the letters which followed were quite dull, and lacked the wit and humour present in the first. They also tended to include, almost exclusively, biographical details about

Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will that is all, really, education is about, should be about.Wow, just wow! Love this little book by Fay Weldon. It is a collection of short essays about Jane Austen, about Writing, about being a Writer written in the

"Alice" is a fictional character, the author, Fay Weldon, signs her letters to this nonexistent niece "your aunt Fay" and most of the book reads more like essays than a novel. Sounds ghastly, right? It probably is if you read it at the wrong moment.Like many people who loved this book, I received it as a gift, put it aside, and then started reading one day when I was in the right mood. And BAM! I was hooked and read this short piece in an afternoon (127 pages in this edition). It definitely

Discovered this gem of book on https://www.instagram.com/p/BXsEpK8ltbB/ Great discussion of Jane, books, and life.

3.5 stars.

A friend - thank you Dee - once sent me this book after a conversation about Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She mentioned it as a sort of introduction to Jane Austen and her world. Last month I finally decided to pick it up.The book is comprised of a number of letters that an aunt, who happens to be a published writer, sends to her niece, who is doing an English major at the University but doesn't want to read Jane Austen. So the letters starts by addressing Austen, her world, beliefs and