Adkins Roy: Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of invasion and revolution. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. From forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to…