Jones' book is well-written and enjoyable, containing fresh observations even for those very familiar with Austen's work and the Regency period. The correspondences between Austen's life and Byron's are fascinating and thought-provoking.

JASNA: Jane Austen Society of North America

The idea of setting Byron beside Austen, his older contemporary, as a Regency figure enables Kenyon Jones to remove him from the conventional Romantic grouping ... much of the book works brilliantly, shedding new light on both writers from rewarding angles.

The New York Review of Books

Christine Kenyon Jones's illuminating book brings us into touching distance with Jane Austen and Lord Byron as she explores their lives, their writing, and the ways they shadowed each other through the Regency world that helped shape them.

Professor Emerita Susan Allen Ford, Delta State University, USA and Editor, Persuasions and Persuasions On-Line

In a fast-moving study Kenyon Jones considers the many and surprising ways in which Austen and Byron intersect, shadow each other, yet fail to meet

The Times Literary Supplement

Jones cannot prove Austen and Byron met, but she does weave together fascinating stories of the Regency world that they both inhabited.

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