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Jane Austen's Remarkable Aunt, Philadelphia Hancock: 'A Girl of Genius and Feeling' by Jan Merriman is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jane Austen's Remarkable Aunt, Philadelphia Hancock: 'A Girl of Genius and Feeling' about?
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 t
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jan Merriman
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword History
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781036111878
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, Historical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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