I departed for English Heritage in 1997, first as an Assistant Inspector and then as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Old Hall, and Kirby Hall were my favourite properties there. Here I helped to organise that celebrated media extravaganza, National Mills Day.
Soon after that I moved to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, in the lovely job for administrator of the Wind and Watermills Section. Here I would give guided tours, occasionally feed the llamas, and look for important pieces of paper that my boss Anthony had lost. My first job after leaving college was at a crazy but wonderful historic house called Milton Manor in Oxfordshire. I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex. Illustrated with two sections of color plates, Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home is a richly entertaining and illuminating new book about one of the world’s favorite novelists and one of the subjects she returned to over and over in her unforgettable novels: home. She shows readers a passionate Jane Austen who fought for her freedom, a woman who had at least five marriage prospects, but-in the end-a woman who refused to settle for anything less than Mr.
Worsley examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House and a small rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. Take a trip back to Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived as historian Lucy Worsley visits Austen's childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses-both grand and small-of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life.
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