![]() Even if you are not an enormous fan of Jane’s novels, this book is a remarkable resource on the life of an unmarried woman at this time, when she was truly dependant on family money with her only option to marry well. This is a long read, with observations on subjects allied to Jane’s actual life, such as the practice of sending fairly small babies away from the family to be nursed, examined. I am sure that Lucy Worsley had a lot of help in researching and producing this book, which she mentions in the Acknowledgements section. Yet it is an easy to read book, which made me want to carry on reading. With chapter notes, an extensive bibliography and index, this book is such a thorough examination of the life and homes of Jane Austen it would cover all requirements for a biography short of degree level study, and even then it would form the beginning of in depth work. Worsley covers this subject so well, in such detail, in such a readable style, that it is looking like my book of the year. ![]() ![]() “The perfect marriage of author and subject” it declares on the cover of my proof copy of this book, and I think that it is in this instance correct. ![]()
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