Austen gives us great detail on houses within her books...
Sanditon is about a town, that sounds like Bath at its
beginning. The construction is wild as the Parkers are excited to see it
prosper. It is short because Austen was unable to finish the story. This is the
story that she had been working on at her death. Still very darling.
Title: Sanditon
Author: Jane Austen
Credits: *1817 in Penguin Classics: Jane Austen: Lady
Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon. Notes by Margaret Drabble. London: Penguin
Books, 1974.
Media: Book
House Notes:
‘There, I fancy lies my cure’ –
pointing to the neat-looking end of a cottage, which was seen romantically
situated among wood on a high eminence at some little distance – “Does not that
promise to be the very place?’[1]
“This is my old house – the house
of my forefathers – the house where I and all my brothers and sisters were born
and bred – and where my own three eldest children were born – where Mrs. Parker
and I lived till within the last two years – till our new house was finished. –
I am glad you are pleased with it. – It is an honest old place – and Hillier
keeps it in very good order. I have given it p you know to the man who occupies
the chief of my land. He gets a better house by it – and I, a rather better situation!”[2]
Trafalgar – A naval engagement led
by Lord Nelson of the British fleet against the French and Spanish navies on
October 21, 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. This is the battle where Nelson
lost his life, yet still willing against many odds. Later to be eclipsed by the
battle of Waterloo, yet still lived in the hearts of the British because of
Nelson and his legacy.
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