16818 Austen - Antique and Collectible An excellent addition to Jane

An excellent addition to Jane Austen scholarship and biography

Roger Gard

slight to heavy cracking

Also gives the source of place names and names of things such as the Elgin Marbles (named after  the Earl of Elgin)

16818 Austen - Antique and Collectible An excellent addition to JaneSolinger shows how ideas of what it means to be a gentleman preoccupied the British in the 18th century. The transformation of the British gentleman into a worldly, educated man suitable as the ideal husband for heroines of novels, is seen evolving with increased literacy, the emergence of colonialism, and the novel. Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. Paper. NEW. $75. 00