Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England
Subtitle: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co
Published: 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781408703960
Description: Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women looking for love. Yet the comfortable, tranquil country that she brilliantly devised is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly portray fascinating aspects of the daily lives of ordinary people, from forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to boys and girls working down mines or as chimney sweeps.
Notes: Source title: Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two centuries ago