Jane Austen
From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening''s entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen''s style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary, her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her ...
From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening''s entertainment and a crucial factor in the way Austen formed and modified her writing. This book looks in detail at Jane Austen''s style. It discusses her characteristic abstract vocabulary, her adaptations of Johnsonian syntax and how she came to make her ...
