13949 Literary Locations Her dear friends the Bigg

Her dear friends the Bigg sisters visit on the way to taking Elizabeth's son (William Heathcote

clean color illustrations by CE Brock

and Elizabeth Hall

With Leigh and Austen family trees

13949 Literary Locations Her dear friends the BiggSecond edition, with a new introduction by the authors. The authors are anthropologists who explore Austen's novels through theories of kinship, social organization, and culture. They argue her realism is in fact a form of social analysis. They take the body of Austen's work as ethnography of diverse social realities rathar than praise of a strictly ordered society. Originally published in 1990 and republished in 1999. Reading Austen as anthropologist