(Hardback)

Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. This book looks at both the real and the literary children in Austen's life; children as models of behaviour, good and bad; and, children as heirs.

(Hardback)

This text identifies leisure and its use as a central characteristic of Jane Austen's work, by examining her life and by looking at the range of leisure pursuits in her novels.