Jane Austen & Adlestrop : her other family : a new perspective on Jane Austen and her novels
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Jane Austen & Adlestrop : her other family : a new perspective on Jane Austen and her novels
Windrush, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index
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内容説明
The story of Jane Austen's links with the idyllic village of Adlestrop and Stoneleigh Abbey, the ancestral homes of the two branches of the Leigh family, has not yet been fully told. Jane's mother Cassandra was a Leigh, a dynasty that boasted an Elizabethan Lord Mayor, ducal marriage alliances, a peerage granted by Charles I, Oxford luminaries as well as the spectre of lunacy and threats of bankruptcy. Jane Austen visited her Leigh cousins at Adlestrop several times and kept in constant touch with events there by letter. In Gloucestershire she first heard of Sir Humphry Repton who was employed by the Leighs and saw at first-hand how the eighteenth-century craze for improvements totally changed the village landscape. On one dramatic occasion she accompanied her cousin, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, to Stoneleigh Abbey which he had inherited - a legacy endlessly disputed and longed for by other family members - including Jane herself. Jane Austen & Adlestrop opens up a fresh window on the author's life and experience.
It examines the probabilities that Adlestrop Park, the Parsonage House and Stoneleigh Abbey inspired not only fictional places such as Thornton Lacey and Sotherton in Mansfield Park but also how the Leighs' colourful lives and inheritance problems influenced many of the plot lines in Jane Austen's books. Jane Austen & Adlestrop is also a portrayal of an archetypal English village's journey from the eighteenth century, looking at how it experienced radical changes during Jane Austen's lifetime and how it is now, over two hundred years later.
目次
List of Illustrations, Maps and Family Trees Introduction & Acknowledgements Chapter One 1 Adlestrop and the Austen Connection: the Leigh family Introducing Adlestrop & the Leighs - Leigh influence on village - Leigh ancestors - Early influences on Jane Austen Chapter Two Country Cousins: Aristocrats and Squires Short biographies of Jane's cousins - The lunacy of the Fifth Lord Leigh - Speculation over the will - A Rector's duties - Mary Leigh's knowledge of Austen family - Class Divide - Elizabeth, the unknown correspondent Chapter Three The Improving of Adlestrop Park A new beginning, family weddings, scandalous connections, theatricals & improvements Chapter Four An Eighteenth-century Village: the Adlestrop Jane Austen first knew Jane Austen's first visit in 1794 - How she travelled & what she saw - The facts & figures, population, houses, shops - Servants & villagers - Resemblance of rectory to Thornton Lacey in Mansfield Park - Great alterations to Adlestrop Park & rectory Chapter Five Country society in a Century of Change Town versus country in fiction & fact - Importance of a social neighbourhood - Enclosures & Jane Austen's interest in them - The decline of the Cotswolds agricultural economy - Poverty for villagers & consolidation of landowners - How Jane Austen reflects on change Chapter Six 'Call in Repton': the Picturesque Movement in Fact and Fiction The Romantic movement - The Leighs on their Picturesque Journey - How Jane Austen embeds her Adlestrop experiences in her work - Repton and his influence on village - How Adlestrop is turned upside-down - How the past & present co-exist Chapter Seven Family quarrels: The Fight for Stoneleigh A family divided over the will - The expectations of the Austens - Impact on Jane Austen's themes - Portrait of eccentric Hon Mary Leigh - Links with Jane Austen's brothers - Jane Austen's sense of financial insecurity - Odious behaviour of James Leigh Perrot Chapter Eight The real Sotherton? Jane Austen at Stoneleigh Abbey Revd Thomas Leigh Jane, Cassandra & Mrs Austen to Stoneleigh - Strong parallels with Mansfield Park - How the Austens were impressed - Family portraits, anecdotes and stories - Local sightseeing - A feast of recollection Chapter Nine The Reverend at the Abbey Description of Stoneleigh Abbey - Repton's improvements - How the Leighs lost the Abbey and return to Adlestrop - James Henry Leigh & Julia spend a small fortune - A new peerage for their son, Chandos Leigh Chapter Ten A Bevy of Vicars: Clerical Connections Jane Austen's many clerical connections - Her fictional churchmen - How the Leighs & Austens worked 'the system' - Vocations or sinecures? - The Adlestrop Living - The March of Evangelism - The Cooper cousins Chapter Eleven Warren Hastings and Jane Austen Connections with Leighs & Austens - Warren Hastings' son - Philadelphia Austen travels to India - Rumours of an affair & a child by Hastings - Amazing life of Eliza - Hastings in India - Impeachment Trial - On acquittal rebuilds ancestral home at Daylesford - Eliza marries Jane's brother Henry Chapter Twelve Adlestrop Now Cotswolds now reinvented for tourism - Edward Thomas poem - Jane Austen's connections little known - Leigh family still major land and property owners - Village changes over the last two centuries Notes Bibliography Index
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