Dear listener, Today we present to you our chat with PETER JAMES BOWMAN, the author of The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a Real-Life Jane Austen Heroine, published with Amberley. 

The book is a non-fiction account of a young woman named Catherine, whose own romance resembled that of Anne Elliot, in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion. The peculiar thing about it all is the fact that Jane Austen had no idea Catherine existed. Intrigued? As are we. Let’s find out more…

The Real Persuasion

https://www.amberley-books.com/the-real-persuasion-9781398122574.html

The Fortune Hunter

https://www.signalbooks.co.uk/2014/07/the-fortune-hunter/ (UK)

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-fortune-hunter/peter-james-bowman/9781909930032 (USA)

The First Celebrities

https://www.amberley-books.com/author-community-main-page/b/peter-james-bowman/the-first-celebrities.html

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