Jane Austen's England

ISBN: 9780312003661

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 1986-12

定价: USD 19.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Maggie Lane's charming guide to the England of Jane Austen's novels takes the reader from Steventon in North Hampshire where Austen spent the first 25 years of her life through Kent Bath Devon and Dorset and ends up in Winchester. The last of the book's 47 engravings depicts Winchester Cathedral where she was buried in July, 1817 at the age of 41. will appeal to history buffs, travelers, aficionados of literature, and Anglophiles alike. Excerpts from Austen's and her contemporaries' writings are woven throughout and contribute along with the author's enjoyable narrative to a sense of being there with Jane as she traveled through fourteen counties.