Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
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booksGentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir
How would the Bennet brothers have fared if they had been five boys instead of five girls?
Discusses the financial realities of Regency Britain, and the downward mobility of the children not the oldest son. One of Jane Austen's brothers married the granddaughter of a duke.
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How would the Bennet brothers have fared if they had been five boys instead of five girls?
Discusses the financial realities of Regency Britain, and the downward mobility of the children not the oldest son. One of Jane Austen's brothers married the granddaughter of a duke.
( Read more... )
