While her scope was limited, this bigger picture shows that her aim was true. Against this backdrop, Austen's strong female characters become even more of a delight. In the process, we can imagine a society that would produce a stodgy minister like Mr.
They leaven the history with apt selections from Austen's six novels and letters to her sister, Cassandra. It's serious stuff, but the Adkinses deliver a fun read full of surprising details about an era that brought us "big wigs" and "bosom friends." A time when widows would strip naked in church to rid themselves of their husband's debts. Jane Austen’s England, by Roy and Lesley Adkins A Review From the desk of Shelley DeWees: In her novels Jane Austen brilliantly portrayed the lives of the middle and upper classes, but barely mentioned the cast of characters who constituted the bulk of the population.
It was a time before painkillers or deodorants, when apprentices could not marry and nobody could divorce. Looking inward, it saw a society sharply divided along class lines. This England looked nervously across the Channel to France, where the masses had overthrown their royalty and now followed the empire-building Napoleon. Roy and Lesley Adkins fill the gaps nicely in "Jane Austen's England," an inviting history that takes readers out of Austen's drawing rooms and into the England of her all-too-short life between 17. Yet in her books, Jane Austen shares little of the tumultuous times she lived in. Her king was crazy, her nation was at war, and her leaders feared revolution.
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