Jane Austen's Worthing

The Real Sanditon

Автор: Antony Edmonds

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Amberley Publishing

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During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends with Edward Ogle, who was the dr...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Antony Edmonds

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

128

EAN

9781445650876

ISBN

1445650878

Enbook ID

09281964

Издател

Amberley Publishing

Теглоt

356

Размери

166 x 234 x 11

Пълно описание

During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends with Edward Ogle, who was the driving force behind the chaotic little town's transformation into a well-ordered seaside resort. Then, in 1817, the year of her death, Jane Austen used Worthing as the background for her final, unfinished novel, Sanditon, one of whose main characters was based on Ogle. This book gives a detailed account of the town Jane Austen knew in 1805, and explores in full the close links between Sanditon and early Worthing. But this is more than just the snapshot of a single year. It is also the portrait of an era. Taking the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth century as his time frame, the author explains how Worthing changed and developed during this period, and paints vivid pictures of some of the people associated with the town. We meet Worthing's most paranoid resident, the volatile reformed criminal John Mackoull, as well as notable visitors to the town such as the poets Byron and Shelley, the satirical writer Horace Smith, and Colonel Berkeley, the louche nobleman and part-time actor with a passion for young actresses. Jane Austen's Worthing includes seventy-five illustrations, over a third of them in colour.

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