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Her book ''Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead'' was published by HarperPress in the UK in August 2009 and HarperCollins New York in the USA in April 2010. An excerpt was published in the ''Sunday Times'' of August 9 under the headline ''Sex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited.'' . An illustrated extract appeared in the April 2010 issue of [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] in advance of American publication. |
Her book ''Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead'' was published by HarperPress in the UK in August 2009 and HarperCollins New York in the USA in April 2010. An excerpt was published in the ''Sunday Times'' of August 9 under the headline ''Sex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited.'' . An illustrated extract appeared in the April 2010 issue of [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] in advance of American publication. |
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In autumn 2010 her publisher [[HarperCollins]] announced that she has been commissioned to write a new biography of [[Jane Austen]]. As part of the publicity for her book, she claimed in a television programme broadcast on [[BBC2]] on Boxing Day 2011 that a Regency pen and ink drawing of graphite on vellum, labelled on the verso 'Miss Jane Austin', might be an authentic portrait of Jane Austen. The painting had been bought for her by her husband. Byrne had been on the board of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust when a similar controversial claim was made about the authenticity of a painting allegedly of Shakespeare |
In autumn 2010 her publisher [[HarperCollins]] announced that she has been commissioned to write a new biography of [[Jane Austen]]. As part of the publicity for her book, she claimed in a television programme broadcast on [[BBC2]] on Boxing Day 2011 that a Regency pen and ink drawing of graphite on vellum, labelled on the verso 'Miss Jane Austin', might be an authentic portrait of Jane Austen. The painting had been bought for her by her husband. Byrne had been on the board of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust when a similar controversial claim was made about the authenticity of a painting allegedly of Shakespeare [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbe_portrait] around the same time as her husband had edited a book about Shakespeare. |
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Byrne is married to [[Jonathan Bate]], [[Shakespeare]] scholar and [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[Worcester College, Oxford]]. |
Byrne is married to [[Jonathan Bate]], [[Shakespeare]] scholar and [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[Worcester College, Oxford]]. |
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Paula Byrne, born in 1967, is a British author and biographer who wrote Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. Her debut book was the study of Jane Austen, Jane Austen and the Theatre, which was published in 2002 by Hambledon. Byrne has a PhD from the University of Liverpool.
In 2005 her biography Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson was featured on the Richard & Judy Book Club on Channel 4, propelling it into the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Her book Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead was published by HarperPress in the UK in August 2009 and HarperCollins New York in the USA in April 2010. An excerpt was published in the Sunday Times of August 9 under the headline Sex scandal behind Brideshead Revisited. . An illustrated extract appeared in the April 2010 issue of Vanity Fair in advance of American publication.
In autumn 2010 her publisher HarperCollins announced that she has been commissioned to write a new biography of Jane Austen. As part of the publicity for her book, she claimed in a television programme broadcast on BBC2 on Boxing Day 2011 that a Regency pen and ink drawing of graphite on vellum, labelled on the verso 'Miss Jane Austin', might be an authentic portrait of Jane Austen. The painting had been bought for her by her husband. Byrne had been on the board of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust when a similar controversial claim was made about the authenticity of a painting allegedly of Shakespeare [1] around the same time as her husband had edited a book about Shakespeare.
Byrne is married to Jonathan Bate, Shakespeare scholar and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford.