![]() ![]() ![]() When Jane was born, her father was rector of the parish church in the pleasant Hampshire village of Steventon, and Jane, her mother’s seventh child, was born there. In an era when many people lived their entire lives in the house they were born in, the Austen family moved house a surprising number of times, and, Worsley argues, these moves and the quality of accommodation they ended up in played an important part in Jane’s state of mind and its effect on her creativity.Īs is still so often the case, the reason for all these moves was closely tied in to the family’s economic condition. As the title suggests, Worsley has chosen to focus her exploration on the various homes in which Jane Austen lived during the course of her relatively short life. Perhaps surprisingly, I think the answer has to be a cautious yes. ![]() But is she the right person to write a biography of Jane Austen? She’s also produced a number of popular history books, frequently tied in to the series she’s been presenting. If you’re a watcher of historical TV documentaries, you won’t need introducing to Lucy Worsley, who presents history programmes for the BBC, in which she often dresses up in the costumes of the period. ![]()
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