内容简介
Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of- and the
aspirations and machinations at work in - her own social milieu.
Through the stories of her spirited heroines and their circles,
their interactions and rituals, their movements from ballrooms to
drawing rooms, from London and Bath to parklands and gardens, she
recreates the life of The English gentry that she observed in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Each of her novels is a love story and a story about marriage -
marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But
they are not romances; ironic, comic, wise and penetrating, they
are brilliant portrayals of the society Jane Austen knew.