By Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
A cultural image of daily life on the planet of Jane Austen
Jane Austen, arguably the best novelist of the English language, wrote brilliantly in regards to the gentry and aristocracy of 2 centuries in the past in her bills of younger women searching for love. Jane Austen’s England explores the customs and tradition of the true England of her daily lifestyles depicted in her vintage novels in addition to these via Byron, Keats, and Shelley. Drawing upon a wealthy array of up to date resources, together with many formerly unpublished manuscripts, diaries, and private letters, Roy and Lesley Adkins vividly painting the day-by-day lives of normal humans, discussing issues as diversified as beginning, marriage, faith, sexual practices, hygiene, highwaymen, and superstitions.
From chores like fetching water to therapeutic with medicinal leeches, from promoting better halves available to buy to purchasing smuggled gin, from the hardships confronted via younger girls and boys within the mines to the universal sight of corpses swinging on gibbets, Jane Austen’s England deals an authoritative and gripping account that's occasionally funny, usually surprising, yet regularly exciting.
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19 Plasterwork and panelling were expensive options. A wall painting was a cheaper alternative. Many of these have not survived: the damp English climate is not good for them and they were in any case intended to be used in the way we use wallpaper, as a rather temporary form of decoration. When the paintings got a bit shabby or out of date, they were often painted over. Fortunately enough have survived to give an impression of what a painted room of the time looked like. Rooms were painted freehand and with stencils, or sometimes with a mixture of both.
Thanks as usual to Margaret Peach for editing and making comments in her own inimitable style. Last but not least, thanks to Malcolm and Moira Lewin, and Janet and Keith Waldock for chocolate, gin and sympathy. Introduction The sixteenth century in England was an age of change. The government became more centralised and powerful, changing the way the bureaucracy worked and the way the aristocracy behaved. The cultural changes of the Renaissance and the politics of the time became entwined so that the Church, the bedrock of medieval society, was weakened by the dissolution of the monasteries and by the religious tensions which eventually split the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches.
13 Over time the wisdom of these ancients had come to be seen rather in the light of divine revelation, that is to say, something which was not to be questioned, but merely accepted. Now people began to question, but they had to do so cautiously and with considerable tact if they wished to avoid punishment. A good case in point is the science of medicine. In the early sixteenth century medicine was taught as a purely academic subject. The Tudors believed that everything was made up of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water.