Posted by Jane E. on July 07, 1997 at 17:45:29: In reply to
EVERYONE please read this! posted by Caroline on July 07, 1997
at 13:22:53 I found this at my library: "A Reader's Guide to the
19th Century English Novel" by Julia Brown (Macmillan 1985). She
is/was an Austen/Eng Lit scholar at Harvard. This 120-page book
tries to give the American reader an insight into the society of
19th century England, starting with Austen and continuing
through Dickens. It's chapters are divided into 'Class and
Money" "Government" etc. and it is very readable and well
footnoted. Brown also wrote an Austen book quoted on the jacket
of the above, about Austen and her relationship to the social
structure of her era. I'll post it later. I tried to locate
books like this on Henry's site, but it's hard to wade throught
the index. Also "Jane Austen in Style" (also published as "Jane
Austen's Town and Country Style") which I raved on earlier in
the Ramble. Thames and Hudson 1991; can't remember the author.
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