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How to pay and return formal 'calls'; how to refuse a proposal of marriage; who should lead off the dancing at a country-house ball; what to wear for a morning walk... Today such social niceties are largely ignored or forgotten, but they underpin all of Jane Austen's timeless novels and are explored and dealt with in this highly original book.
Written as if intended for Austen's original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely...
Written as if intended for Austen's original readers in the Regency era, and illustrated with exquisitely...
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"Although she joked to her sister Cassandra, in a letter of 1813, "I do not despair of having my picture in the Exhibition at last-all white & red, with my Head on one Side", Jane Austen (1775-1817) avoided the limelight. The unmarried younger daughter of a country vicar, she published her novels anonymously. When she died, aged only 41-having earned less than £700 from her writing-her name was still almost unknown to the world at large. That two...
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