14312-2 The Watsons Beautiful silk cover with gilt

Beautiful silk cover with gilt floral basket design

Includes Pride and Prejudice

This is the first edition with Hugh Thomson illustrations

Also includes characters drawn from Mrs

14312-2 The Watsons Beautiful silk cover with giltJane Austen has been important to soldiers in times of war, paraded as a feminist, deemed most conservative, found to be the first modern novelist, and read as classical. Nowadays she has gone beyond postfeminist and is on the global stage, in policital discoure on the internet, a symbol for Englishness and for Western ideals. This collection of essays explores these developments. Dow is Director of Research at Chawton House Library and Lecturer in