Jane Austen and LeisureBloomsbury Academic, 1999 - 352 pàgines "The smooth working of society depended on a round of visits, dinners and evening parties, sometimes enlivened by cards, music, dancing or amateur theatricals; and there were also regular outings to balls and assemblies, plays and concerts. Bath and other spas were active centres of entertainment of all kinds; and the seaside resort was steadily growing in importance. Jane Austen experienced all these herself and put them to good use in her novels; but she also registered the act that quiet, solitary pursuits such as reading, walking or the inevitable needlework might be more to the taste of a Fanny Price or an Anne Elliot. Male characters employ their leisure in a number of sports, often glimpsed offstage - shooting, hunting, racing, gaming."--BOOK JACKET. "Jane Austen and Leisure identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Martha Lloyd , were engaged on a large piece of patchwork ; during a period when Martha and Cassandra were both away from home , they ran out of material and Jane asked her sister in a letter to Godmersham if she had remembered to ...
... Martha Lloyd , were engaged on a large piece of patchwork ; during a period when Martha and Cassandra were both away from home , they ran out of material and Jane asked her sister in a letter to Godmersham if she had remembered to ...
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... Martha will have wet Races & catch a bad cold , ' she wrote in September ... Martha herself ) of a wet meeting : ' Poor Basingstoke Races ! - there seem to have ... Lloyd , who until she moved in with the Austens lived at Ibthorpe near ...
... Martha will have wet Races & catch a bad cold , ' she wrote in September ... Martha herself ) of a wet meeting : ' Poor Basingstoke Races ! - there seem to have ... Lloyd , who until she moved in with the Austens lived at Ibthorpe near ...
Pàgina 152
... Martha Lloyd attended , she wrote : Our Ball was rather more amusing than I expected , Martha liked it very much , & I did not gape till the last quarter of an hour . It was past nine before we were sent for , & not twelve when we ...
... Martha Lloyd attended , she wrote : Our Ball was rather more amusing than I expected , Martha liked it very much , & I did not gape till the last quarter of an hour . It was past nine before we were sent for , & not twelve when we ...
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