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In this original and perceptive study Maggie Lane reveals the importance of place in Jane Austen's novels and follows the writer's travels throughout Georgian England. Far from being confined to her native Hampshire and Bath, as is often thought, Jane Austen travelled in fourteen counties, knew three cities intimately and explored many stretches of the English coastline. Brighton and Bristol, Lyme Regis and London, Portsmouth and Southampton, Oxford and Canterbury - these and several other towns provided the stimulus for the acute, witty studies of society which fill Jane Austen's novels, from "Pride and Prejudice" to "Persuasion". At a time when England was particularly beautiful, following enclosure and the spread of Georgian architecture, Jane Austen also recorded faithful, revealing images of the countryside, inspired by the preoccupation, universal among the English gentry, with the landscape, 'improvements' and 'picturesque' beauty. Travelling with Jane Austen county by county, this book examines her response both to what she saw and to what she read, and how this manifests itself in her writings. Maggie Lane's incisive text, elegantly illustrated with numerous contemporary engravings, superbly recreates the distinctive backdrop for some of the finest novels in English literature.
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Jane Austen's England is not a guidebook; instead, Maggie Lane explores Austen's encounters with Britain's countryside and towns, from her home in north Hampshire to Oxford to Portsmouth. Lane records Austen's journeys and stays--quoting extensively from her letters and novels--but her book is also an activist manifesto. Writing of how much Britain has changed since the age of Austen, she urges, "We must be more vigilant over what remains." Through poems, prints, and paintings of the period, Lane evokes England's natural and man-made beauties--though always in service of a larger aim--setting the stage for Austen's life and art.
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Maggie Lane's guide to the real scenes that are the background to the novels is both illuminating and attractive. provides an entertaining backdrop to her comedies and dramas.
Maggie Lane has followed Jane Austen's own travels in an age when cultured people were learning to appreciate the natural world. the incisive text toge ther with the many engravings cannot fail to fascinate those who have enjoyed the novels of Jane Austen.
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- PublisherJ. Salmon Ltd
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0709027893
- ISBN 13 9780709027898
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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