12511 $50 to $100 The concerns of her brother

The concerns of her brother the landowner and the agricultural community around her are described and intertwined with information from Austen's life and novels

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12511 $50 to $100 The concerns of her brotherFrom a range of primary sources letters, trial reports, popular prints, and love tokens. A history of the women who stayed at home while their men were at sea, from all walks of life. Focus is primarily on the latter half of the 18th century when Britain was always at war. Mansfield Park and Persuasion figure in the book, as well as Jane's brother Charles, and Jane's own letter writing. This is an interesting example of how Austen's fiction is used to