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Jane Austen's Remarkable Aunt, Philadelphia Hancock: A Girl of Genius and Feeling' (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781036111854)
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xPhiladelphia Austen's journey from orphan to independent woman reveals the challenges faced by women in the 18th century, inspiring Jane Austen.
The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed by the limitations of women's lives of that time and opens up a wider exploration of those times through a detailed examination of one particular woman: Jane Austen's 'aunt Phila'.
The story of her aunt had impressed the young Jane Austen when she created a character, Cecilia Wynne, in her short fiction, Catharine or the Bower, written when she was sixteen. Cecilia's experience as an orphaned 'girl of genius and feeling' being 'sent in quest of a husband to Bengal', mirrored that of her recently deceased aunt. Such a connection between author and aunt sparked an interest in an otherwise neglected member of the Austen clan.
How did this aunt who had provided inspiration for the young Jane manage to make her way in the world? How did the course of her life reflect the lives of other women of her times? What worlds did she move in? What people did she meet? Little was known about Philadelphia, yet her daughter Eliza, was said to be a central figure in Jane Austen's life.
The conventional trajectory Philadelphia's was changed when, after completing a millinery apprenticeship in London, she took the chance of a journey to India and an arranged marriage. There she became part of the colourful world of the Honourable East India Company and encountered many of its most notable people. Her life was transformed.
Author: Jan Merriman
ISBN-10: 1036111857
ISBN-13: 9781036111854
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed by the limitations of women's lives of that time and opens up a wider exploration of those times through a detailed examination of one particular woman: Jane Austen's 'aunt Phila'.
The story of her aunt had impressed the young Jane Austen when she created a character, Cecilia Wynne, in her short fiction, Catharine or the Bower, written when she was sixteen. Cecilia's experience as an orphaned 'girl of genius and feeling' being 'sent in quest of a husband to Bengal', mirrored that of her recently deceased aunt. Such a connection between author and aunt sparked an interest in an otherwise neglected member of the Austen clan.
How did this aunt who had provided inspiration for the young Jane manage to make her way in the world? How did the course of her life reflect the lives of other women of her times? What worlds did she move in? What people did she meet? Little was known about Philadelphia, yet her daughter Eliza, was said to be a central figure in Jane Austen's life.
The conventional trajectory Philadelphia's was changed when, after completing a millinery apprenticeship in London, she took the chance of a journey to India and an arranged marriage. There she became part of the colourful world of the Honourable East India Company and encountered many of its most notable people. Her life was transformed.
Author: Jan Merriman
ISBN-10: 1036111857
ISBN-13: 9781036111854
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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