Jane Austen, Mr Darcy, The Regency and Vanity Fair – Part 1
English author Jane Austen lived in one of the most eventful, colourful and turbulent epochs in the history of England and Europe.
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Jane Austen – Provincial Life & The Cultivation of the Mind
While her only known image may seem to reveal otherwise, there was nothing really plain about Jane. Her novels belong as much to her times as do the list of battle honours won by those involved in the era’s significant war campaigns.