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Jane Austen's England
by Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670785849
- ISBN 13
- 9780670785841
- Seller
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Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York NY: Viking, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First US edition, 3rd printing, 2013. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8", xxvi, 422 pages, black and white illustrations, maps, chronological overview, bibliography. Drawing on contemporary sources including diaries, letters, newspapers and trial proceedings as well as Jane Austen's own correspondence and writings, Roy and Lesley Adkins have created a wide-ranging and richly detailed social history of English life in the early 19th century that offers new perspectives on the world of the great novelist. Covering everything from childbirth, education and work to the darker side of Georgian society, poverty and crime, the book provides an illuminating companion to Austen's novels. Hb, fine in near fine dw. .
Synopsis
A cultural snapshot of everyday life in the world of Jane Austen Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly about the gentry and aristocracy of two centuries ago in her accounts of young women looking for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and culture of the real England of her everyday existence depicted in her classic novels as well as those by Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a rich array of contemporary sources, including many previously unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and personal letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray the daily lives of ordinary people, discussing topics as diverse as birth, marriage, religion, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions. From chores like fetching water to healing with medicinal leeches, from selling wives in the marketplace to buying smuggled gin, from the hardships faced by young boys and girls in the mines to the familiar sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England offers an authoritative and gripping account that is sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.
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- Bookseller
- Trinder's Fine Tools
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007112
- Title
- Jane Austen's England
- Author
- Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670785849
- ISBN 13
- 9780670785841
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk
About Trinder's Fine Tools
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