Interesting concept as it really , off hand, doesn't seem as though her
male relatives had a great deal of discouragement, or abysmal poverty. Her
father's family were orphaned early and were poor. He received a
university education and a profession. His sister had to go out to India
to find a husband.
Austen's immediate family weren't destitute. yes when Mr. Austen died the
woman had to be careful with other money. However, that was sort of like
the problem with Mr. Bennet and Mr. Dashwood. The fathers could have and
should have set aside money over the years, but didn't.
Nancy
On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 11:50?AM Ellen Moody via groups.io <ellen.moody=
[email protected]> wrote:
This is the book Diana's reading group has chosen for this month. I
finally found an inexpensive copy. It's written in a popular style.
The method or idea is to tell Austen's life in such a way as wherever
possible bring in all the abysmal poverty, profound inequality, and
where various social, political economic structures kept down all
sorts of people Austen, but more her male family members encountered a
lot.
So it's not a misread or misappropriation of documentable events,
people, conditions at the time
Ellen
