Title: The World of Jane Austen
First published: 1991
Description: In addition to devising some of the most remarkable characters in literature, Jane Austen vividly depicted their world. An engaging mixture of biography and photographic study provides a glimpse into the houses and scenery that formed the "stage set" where her stories unfolded, from the author's own home and those of her friends to the countryside, seaside, castles, abbeys, and churches, and famed houses like Chatsworth and Chawton, considered the models for Pemberley and Rosings in *Pride and Prejudice*.
Subjects: Biography, English Novelists, Novelists, English, Social life and customs, Austen, jane, 1775-1817, England, social life and customs, Authors, biography, Settings, Homes and haunts
Places: England
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century