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Brian Southam

Paperback - £12.99
ISBN 0 948065 65 6
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It is not surprising that Jane Austen took deep personal interest in naval affairs - two of her brothers were at sea. Her brother Francis served on board the Canopus, narrowly missing the Battle of Trafalgar, and Charles, on the Endymion, captured numerous small prizes.

Her interest is reflected throughout her novels, in particular in Mansfield Park with its vivid description of life in Portsmouth, and in Persuasion, with its account of naval officers and attitudes.

Jane Austen and the Navy, based on family and naval records, presents the novelist as an historian of Nelson's navy. This is not the navy of Nelson's great victories but the navy at home, of sailors among their families and friends, set against the background of war and revolution, observed, as always, with Austen's shrewd and detailed eye.

Now published in paperback with new colour illustrations. Fully revised by the author.

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Details

Category: History/Biography
Size: 240 x 160 mm
Pages: 416pp
Illustrations: 30 colour and black & white