Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… sphere The Sociable Jane Austen Jane Austen’s early life, growing up in her father’s country parsonage in Hampshire in a family of clever siblings, featured the kind of domestic sociability which is central to her fiction. 1 A culture of … the Austens were on the margins of the gentry class, with limited income but benefitting from a wide network of family connections. 2 Country balls amongst her Hampshire neighbours widened Austen’s experience at the same time while … of sociability. In her own lifetime and into the late nineteenth century, the novels were read aloud and discussed in family groups like her own, with allusions to her writings serving as cultural currency amongst elite groups. But …
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