Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know
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The Life of Jane Austen
Austen and her family occupied what a lot of people call the pseudo-gentry. Her father had the living at Steemington, but it was only so long as he worked there. They weren't poor by any means, but money sometimes was a little bit more of an issue. If anyone has ever read any of her due vanilla, they're really interesting. There's some very fun and dramatic stories about drunkards and masquerade balls and affairs'
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