Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 shared creativity involving word games, … connections. 2 Country balls amongst her Hampshire neighbours widened Austen’s experience at the same time while making evident disparities in social position, particularly for a young woman with little money. Where her fictional … Ford’s general store in Emma , for example, is ‘the very shop that every body attends every day of their lives’, making it the ideal locus for the exchange of news and gossip (Austen, Emma , II.vi.215). 8 Austen’s marriage plots pivot …
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