"Jane Austen at Home offers a fascinating look at Jane Austen's world through the lens of the homes in which she lived and worked throughout her life. The result is a refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity."--Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses--both grand and small--of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but--in the end--a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr. Darcy. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world’s favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home.
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 ...
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Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by heart and Churchill read during the Blitz?
“ 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 ...
This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility—and one who will be unfamiliar (though never unrecognizable) to many readers.” — Publishers Weekly In The Real Jane Austen, acclaimed ...
She was a prolific diarist, spilling out millions of words over her lifetime, three or four thousand some evenings. ... important days from her parents' lives, the date of her own birth and days when her children came into her life and ...
'Think of all the times we boasted at the mead-bench, heroes in the hall, predicting our own bravery in battle,' reminisced an Anglo-Saxon warrior. The male domination of the highest-status kitchens only began to.
488; The London Chronicle (25–28 October 1760), Vol. 8, No. 599, p. 410. 127. Manning (1954), p. 28, Talbot Williamson to Edmund Williamson (26 January 1758). 128. Llanover (1861), Vol.3, pp. 606–7. 129. Manning (1954) ...
As usual her playing was more forte than piano. She was practising scales, which sounded like a giant running up the stairs and back down again. There was no denying that she had a great love for music, but, as Lehzen Chapter 17 ...