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Cargando... Jane Austen: In Stylepor Susan Watkins
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is the same book as Jane Austen Town and Country Style. It is one of the best introductions to the Regency era that I have encountered. ( ) For a non-fiction book, this one was as engaging as a novel and just as easy to read. Watkins takes us through an in-depth look at the styles of the Georgian era in English history, describing what life would have been like for Jane Austen. She has broken this investigation into 5 chapters: Grace and Manners; The Country House; Interior Styles; Fashion; and Entertainment and with the exception of the interior chapter, I was quite smitten. She also cleverly weaves excerpts form the Austen novels, along with snippets from the many letters Jane Austen wrote or those that were written to her by family, and this interaction between fact and fiction illustrates the many styles of the day and is beautifully done. I never knew much about the Georgian era before but it was a time of great changes, both in lifestyle and in the people themselves, and I have learnt so much more than what you can gleam from the stories. I read this book across two days which should be a testament in itself as to its readability, and would recommend it as a great companion piece for the Austen novels. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The world of Jane Austen - spanning the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th - was a world of unsurpassed elegance, beauty and refinement. This study aims to recreate its lifestyle. The book contains a directory detailing where the furnishings, fashions, china and glass of the period can be seen or bought today. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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