title: Jane Austen's England
author:  Maggie Lane 
description: <i>Jane Austen's England</i> is not a guidebook; instead, Maggie Lane explores Austen's encounters with Britain's countryside and towns, from her home in north Hampshire to Oxford to Portsmouth. Lane records Austen's journeys and stays--quoting extensively from her letters and novels--but her book is also an activist manifesto. Writing of how much Britain has changed since the age of Austen, she urges, "We must be more vigilant over what remains." Through poems, prints, and paintings of the period, Lane evokes England's natural and man-made beauties--though always in service of a larger aim--setting the stage for Austen's life and art.
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  Also by Elizabeth Bramwell
  
  
  The Foolish Friend
  
  
  His Darling Belle
  
  
  
  
  
  Forthcoming in 2017:
  
  
  His Darling Belle
  
  
  The Rebel Wife
  
  
  A Novel Miss
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  © Elizabeth Bramwell – all rights reserved
  
  
  For my mum;
  
  
  thanks for talking me into this
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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  As fond as she was of her elder brother, there were times when Lady Emma
  Loughcroft rather fancied strangling him. At present George, Earl of
  Gloucester, was pacing her sitting room at a speed that made her feel quite
  exhausted, and was yet to draw breath long enough for her to push a word in.
  
  
  “St James Street, Emma! That... that hoyden you currently have living under
  your protection only went and drove your phaeton down St James’! And if that
  were not bad enough, she had the audacity to blow a kiss at the Bow Window as
  she passed it!”
  
  
  Lady Emma sighed. Any sense of pleasure in seeing