17952 Austen Hero Shirts The Holburne Museum of Art

The Holburne Museum of Art

Kempe was illiterate but dictated her memoirs in old age

from the novel

Cover design by Hendrik van Leeuwen

17952 Austen Hero Shirts The Holburne Museum of ArtA beautifully imagined novel that shows an author building her art within a sisterhood not previously explored in fiction. Austen scholar Emsley brings us into the relationship between Jane and Fanny Palmer Austen. The women made different choices one writing, the other becoming a loving wife to Jane's handsome sailor brother Charles. The women become fast friends through letters. Brave Fanny doesn't shy away from accompanying her husband aboard ship