Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… of opportunities to observe the changing world around her. She resided five years in the fashionable spa town of Bath when her father retired there in 1801 and partook of the town’s public diversions, which are depicted in her … estates enabled his sister to move amongst the landed gentry and observe them at close hand; she also accompanied him to Bath where he tried the latest treatments for his gout. Austen’s fragmentary final novel ‘Sanditon’, set in a newly … a narrative which was cut short by her own early death at the age of 41 in 1817. 5 5 . For illness in relation to Bath sociability in Austen’s Persuasion, see Annick Cossic-Péricarpin, ‘Fashionable Diseases in Georgian Bath: Fiction …
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