15647 Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Introduction by Fay Weldon (1989)

Introduction by Fay Weldon (1989)

but at least she is not so shocking as to deserve being thrown into the fire

She shows how fiction interplayed with history and culture as our ideas of ourselves changed during the crucial 18th and 19th centuries

Isobel Grundy

15647 Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Introduction by Fay Weldon (1989)Caroline is Jane Austen's fifth great niece, descended from Austen's brother Edward Knight. She lived at Chawton House on the estate where Jane Austen, her mother, sister, and friend were given a place to live by Edward, where Austen could finally write and re write and publish her novels. When Caroline was 17, the family were forced to leave the home. Leaving everything Austen behind her, Caroline took her life in an entirely different direction. She