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Jane Austen and Her Times

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By G. E. Mitton
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This biographical study reconstructs the life and milieu of a well-known novelist, arguing that her compact personal narrative contrasts with a singularly sharp comic gift and enduring insight into human foibles. It interweaves family background, clerical and domestic settings, fashionable society, travel, correspondence, and contemporary writers to show how social customs shaped the novels and letters. The author examines why the fiction feels timeless despite period manners, surveys locales such as Bath and Chawton, and considers themes of love, marriage, and social rank, while illustrated chapters detail dress, fashions, and everyday scenes that framed her creativity.

MORNING EMPLOYMENTS

JANE AUSTEN
AND HER TIMES

BY

G. E. MITTON

WITH TWENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1905

CONTENTS

CHAP.   PAGE
I. PRELIMINARY AND DISCURSIVE 1
II. CHILDHOOD 22
III. THE POSITION OF THE CLERGY 34
IV. HOME LIFE AT STEVENTON 49
V. THE NOVELS 80
VI. LETTERS AND POST 105
VII. SOCIETY AND LOVE-MAKING 117
VIII. VISITS AND TRAVELING 148
IX. CONTEMPORARY WRITERS 161
X. A TRIO OF NOVELS 176
XI. THE NAVY 196
XII. BATH 212
XIII. DRESS AND FASHIONS 229
XIV. AT SOUTHAMPTON 249
XV. CHAWTON 266
XVI. IN LONDON 278
XVII. FANNY AND ANNA 296
XVIII. THE PRINCE REGENT AND EMMA 303
XIX. LAST DAYS 313
  INDEX 327

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MORNING EMPLOYMENTS

From a Painting by Bunbury. Frontispiece

THE REV. GEORGE AUSTEN

From a Family Miniature. Facing page 16

THE REV. JAMES AUSTEN

From a Family Miniature. 16

JUVENILE RETIREMENT

From a Painting by John Hoppner. 26

THE VICAR RECEIVING HIS TITHES

From a Drawing by H. Singleton. 42

JANE AUSTEN

From a Portrait by her Sister Cassandra. 58

THE HAPPY COTTAGERS

From a Painting by George Morland. 74

MISS BURNEY (MADAME D’ARBLAY)

From a Portrait by Edward Burney. 96

FROM A SUMMER’S EVENING

From a Drawing by de Loutherbourg. 156

TRAVELLERS ARRIVING AT EAGLE TAVERN, STRAND

From an Old Engraving. 159

DOMESTIC HAPPINESS

From a Painting by George Morland. 170

COWPER

From a Painting by George Romney, in the possession of B. Vaughan Johnson, Esq. 192

VICTORY OF LORD DUNCAN (CAMPERDOWN), 1797

From a Painting by J. S. Copley. 208

FAÇADE OF THE PUMP ROOM, BATH, IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

From a Contemporary Engraving. 220

DRESSING TO GO OUT

From a Drawing by P. W. Tomkins. 230

INIGO JONES, HON. H. FANE, AND C. BLAIR

From a Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 246

A PLATE FROM THE GALLERY OF FASHION 260

CHARING CROSS, 1795

From an Engraving in the Crace Collection. 285

THE LITTLE THEATRE, HAYMARKET

From an Engraving by Wilkinson in Londina Illustrata. 291

THE REV. GEORGE CRABBE

From a Drawing by Sir F. Chantrey, in the National Portrait Gallery. 293

THE GARDEN OF CARLTON HOUSE

From a Painting by Bunbury. 304