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Baldwin was a rather corrupt figure, standing behind much of Bath's building boom, and eventually ousted from his public offices for financial irregularities. No one drew the back of the house, because Georgian Bath was all about making ...
Brade-Birks, S. Graham, Jane Austen and Godmersham, Ashford Local History Series no. 1, Kent County Council (n.d.). Brannon, Philip, The Picture of Southampton, or Strangers Handbook (Southampton, 333 Bibliography.
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When Charlotte Lucas sets about luring Mr Collins into a marriage proposal, we are told 'Charlotte's kindness extended further . . . Such was Miss Lucas's scheme' (I. xxii). The first statement seems to take us sympathetically into the ...
“ I was troubled , ” she began , “ by the difference in the way Austen talks about the death of Dick Musgrove and the way she talks about the death of Fanny Harville . It's very convenient to the plot that Fanny's fiancé falls in love ...
The summary of the planned plot of The Watsons states that 'much of the interest in the tale was to arise from Lady Osborne's love for Mr Howard and his counter affection for the heroine, Emma Watson, whom he was finally to marry'.5 ...
Here are the Austen influencers, including her first English illustrator, the eccentric Ferdinand Pickering, whose sensational gothic images may be better understood through his brushes with bullying, bigamy, and an attempted matricide.
were ready, and we came home in some rain and the apprehension of a great deal. It has not done us any harm, however. ... Henry a great deal of money for printing, &c. I hope Mrs. Fletcher will indulge herself with S. and S. November 6.