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Author: Susan Watkins Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 232
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The world of novelist Jane Austen was a place of unsurpassed elegance, beauty, and refinement. This book documents Jane Austen's world: Stoneleigh Abbey, quaint country retreats and stylish town houses. A Buyer's Directory, for those who want to recreate this era in their own homes is included.
Author: Susan Watkins Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
The world of novelist Jane Austen was a place of unsurpassed elegance, beauty, and refinement. This book documents Jane Austen's world: Stoneleigh Abbey, quaint country retreats and stylish town houses. A Buyer's Directory, for those who want to recreate this era in their own homes is included.
Author: Deirdre Le Faye Publisher: Frances Lincoln ISBN: 9780711231580 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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Jane Austen lived for nearly all her life in two Hampshire villages: for 25 years in her birthplace of Steventon, and then for the last 8 years of her life in Chawton, during which she wrote and published her great novels. While there are plenty of books describing her periods of urban life in Bath, Southampton and London, and the summer holidays in Lyme Regis and other West Country seaside resorts, no book has given consideration to the rural background of her life. Her father was not only the rector of Steventon but a farmer there as well, managing a property of some 200 acres. Her brother Edward, in addition, was a large landowner, holding the three estates of Godmersham in Kent, Steventon and Chawton in Hampshire. Agriculture, in all its aspects, was even more important to Jane than clerical life or the naval careers of her younger brothers. This book fills a gap in the Austen family background, discussing the state of agriculture in general in the south of England during the wartime, conditions which lasted for most of Jane Austen's life, and considering in particular the villages and their inhabitants, the weather conditions, field crops, farm and domestic animals, and the Austens' household economy and rural way of life. Apart from these obvious sources, there are other Austen family manuscripts, as yet unpublished, which provide particular and unique information. Richly illustrated with contemporary depictions of country folk, landscapes and animals, Jane Austen's Country Life conjures up a world which has vanished more than the familiar regency townscapes of Bath or London, but which is no less important to an understanding of this most treasured writer's life and work.
Author: Tom Howard Publisher: ISBN: 9781840671124 Category : England Languages : en Pages : 80
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Jane Austen, the English novelist, was born in Hampshire but also spent a great deal of her time in Bath. In tracing her life and writing and the places associated with them, Tom Howard manages to add a modern topographical dimension. With the aid of magnificent photography, the reader is introduced to what can still be seen, despite the lapse of two centuries, of the life, the towns and the countryside that Jane Austen knew.
Author: C. S. Lewis Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN: 0812980018 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 322
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Why are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and contemporary writers—novelists, essayists, journalists, scholars, and a filmmaker—discuss the tricks and treasures of Austen’s novels, from her witty dialogue, to the arc and sweep of her story lines, to her prescriptions for life and love. Virginia Woolf examines Austen’s maturation as an artist and speculates on how her writing would have changed had she lived another twenty years, while Anna Quindlen examines the enduring issues of social pressure and gender politics that make Pride and Prejudice as vital today as ever. From Harold Bloom to Martin Amis, Somerset Maugham to Jay McInerney, Eudora Welty to Amy Bloom, each writer reflects on Austen’s place in both the literary canon and our cultural imagination.
Author: You-Me Park Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134297335 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 271
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This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire * revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context * exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism. Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.
Author: Hilary Davidson Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300218729 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 337
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This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.
Author: Tom Howard Publisher: Smithmark Pub ISBN: 9780831718541 Category : Authors, English Languages : en Pages : 80
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With the aid of magnificent photography, the reader is introduced to what can still be seen, despite the lapse of two centuries, of the life, the towns, and the countryside that Jane Austen knew.
Author: Jane Austen Publisher: ISBN: 9780712349857 Category : Country life Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This beautiful book combines quotations by Jane Austen with charming silhouette drawings by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh which have never before been made available to a wide audience. Jane Austen's lively text and her nephew's astute observations of nature combine in a way that uniquely illustrates their perspectives on life in the English countryside."--
Author: Peter W. Graham Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317111494 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 216
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Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these characterizations are at least partially interchangeable, as each author possessed skills that would serve well in either arena. Both Austen and Darwin are naturalists who look with a sharp, cold eye at the concrete particulars of the world around them. Both are in certain senses novelists who weave densely particularized and convincingly grounded narratives that convey their personal observations and perceptions to wide readerships. When taken seriously, the words and works of Austen and Darwin encourage their readers to look closely at the social and natural worlds around them and form opinions based on individual judgment rather than on transmitted opinion. Graham's four interlocked essays begin by situating Austen and Darwin in the English empirical tradition and focusing on the uncanny similarities in the two writers' respective circumstances and preoccupations. Both Austen and Darwin were fascinated by sibling relations. Both were acute observers and analysts of courtship rituals. Both understood constant change as the way of the world, whether the microcosm under consideration is geological, biological, social, or literary. Both grasped the importance of scale in making observations. Both discerned the connection between minute, particular causes and vast, general effects. Employing the trenchant analytical talents associated with his subjects and informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and the best of recent work by historians of science, Graham has given us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.
Author: Susan Watkins
Author: Susan Watkins
Author: Deirdre Le Faye
Author: Tom Howard
Author: C. S. Lewis
Author: You-Me Park
Author: Hilary Davidson
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Author: Peter W. Graham