Revealed: Jane Austen's country life

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She is one of Britain's best-loved novelists, famed for her works of romantic fiction set among the English middle and upper classes. But while much is known about Jane Austen – that her father was a clergyman, and that she lived for some years in Bath and Southampton and took holidays in the West Country – little attention has been paid to the countryside in which she spent the greater part of her life. Now, in the first book of its kind, Jane Austen expert Deirdre Le Faye has uncovered the rural backdrop to Jane's life, letters and novels
She is one of Britain's best-loved novelists, famed for her works of romantic fiction set among the English middle and upper classes. But while much is known about Jane Austen – that her father was a clergyman, and that she lived for some years in Bath and Southampton and took holidays in the West Country – little attention has been paid to the countryside in which she spent the greater part of her life. Now, in the first book of its kind, Jane Austen expert Deirdre Le Faye has uncovered the rural backdrop to Jane's life, letters and novels