The Worlds of Jane Austen (HB), by Helena Kelly - NEW IN Elizabeth Bennet sugar bowl

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clever and rich” is Meg’s favourite Austen heroine

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The Worlds of Jane Austen (HB), by Helena Kelly - NEW IN Elizabeth Bennet sugar bowlJane Austen produced some of the best known novels in the English Language and remains both beloved and influential. Bridgerton wouldn't exist without her but there's more to her than ballrooms and longing glances. Though we think of her life as tranquil and uneventful it was a period of immense change, marked by wars, revolutions and debates on everything from slavery and feminism to poetry and landscape gardening. She moved between country estates